From here, a weeks-long Carnival Season ensues and is filled with parades, street parties and club balls. South Louisiana Mardi Gras parades are set to begin on Jan. 6, with the last of the major ...

Mardi Gras, also known as Carnival, is a deeply interesting celebration that contrasts excessive eating and drinking starting in January with 40 days of fasting and penance starting on Ash ...

Around the Gulf Coast, there’s also a pretty good reason to keep it up: Mardi Gras. Given the close proximity to Christmas and the start of the Mardi Gras season, Mardi Gras trees are another ...

When the Mardi Gras season is in full swing, about 60 women in corsets will strut through the streets, glimmering with beaded images of Purple Drank, daiquiris, Negronis and other cocktails.

Noon — Krewe of Diamondhead Mardi Gras parade, Diamondhead Noon — Annual Jackson County Carnival Association Parade, Pascagoula 1 pm — Second Liners Mardi Gras Club parade, Downtown Biloxi 2 pm — ...

Jesters and other characters dressed in the familiar purple, green and yellow tones of Mardi Gras and a float reminiscent of those at New Orleans Carnival parades can be seen passing by in the ...

Be ready for Mardi Gras, with the FREE Fox10 Float Tracker app. The tracker lets you know where the start of the parade is at any time. You’ll also find parade routes, a parade schedule ...