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 ...