For parade attendees like Calyen, Mardi Gras is a continuation of a long Christian tradition. Fat Tuesday, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, has morphed from a day-long celebration to one that can ...

March 4 is Fat Tuesday and to help us celebrate Mardi Gras our friends from Torrance Bakery brought for us their traditional King Cake in multiple flavors, along with their King Cake donuts and ...

The celebration, which lands on Tuesday (March 4), leads up to Lent — the Christian tradition of fasting and reflection. But before that, the people of New Orleans turn up big time with Mardi ...

The plans had been set for months: Dr. Roquell E. Wyche would finally take her son, Jaxon, to New Orleans, joining nearly 40 members of her husband’s family for their annual celebration of Mardi ...

Mardi Gras gives people the opportunity to celebrate before the Lenten season, where many give up habits for 40 days. Here's a closer look.

Mardi Gras gives people the opportunity to celebrate before the Lenten season, where many give up habits for 40 days. Here's a closer look. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.

Mardi Gras allows people to celebrate before the Lenten season, where people become more disciplined and give up habits for 40 days. “It’s a pre-Lent party to go into something that is very ...

Mardi Gras gives people the opportunity to celebrate before the Lenten season, where many give up habits for 40 days. Here's a closer look. News Sports Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals ...

Traditionally for cities with strong Catholic roots, like New Orleans, Mardi Gras is a day of wild partying, parades and extravagant eating before fasting on Ash Wednesday and Lent begins.

But Mardi Gras is an entire season, often called Carnival. It begins 12 days after Christmas on Jan. 6 and lasts until Fat Tuesday, or the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.

On average, over one million tourists enter the city in the final days before Mardi Gras, more than three times the city’s 2024 population of 357,767. The increase in people has an undeniable ...

Mardi Gras' date changes each year based on the spring equinox. Here's when to celebrate this year. ... a 40-day period of reflection before the joyful celebration that is Easter.