Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tuesday,” is celebrated around the world, but here in Southwest Louisiana, our Mardi Gras celebration is closely connected to our Catholic faith and historically French heritage.

In Louisiana’s Cajun country, the Courir de Mardi Gras festival brings a frenzy of mischief-making. Festival participants—individually and collectively called “Mardi Gras”—run through the fields ...

People love to joke that Carnival season, which officially begins on Twelfth Night and lasts until Mardi Gras day, causes revelers to come down with “glitter lung”—a sparkly faux-disease contracted by ...

Whenever you think of Mardi Gras, you probably think parades, floats and beads being thrown in the air, but there is another side of Mardi Gras that’s not as widely known outside of the Cajun and ...