NEW ORLEANS (AP) — People across New Orleans are marking the culmination of the Mardi Gras season.
Floats and marching bands will parade down the city's St. Charles Ave. on Tuesday.
The Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club will kick off the parades at 8 a.m. follo...
Couldn't make it to New Orleans this year for Mardi Gras? Here's a little sneak of what you missed. Don't worry, all of these pictures are safe for work.
Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday," a reference to the binge eating a lot of Catholics do before Lent. As is often the case with holidays, the Christian roots are intertwined with earlier pagan practices. It was very common for early church fathers to integrate elements of pagan ritual in an attempt to attract potential converts.
Mardi Gras itself originated in the Middle Ages and wa