indulging in delicious and colorful king cakes and donning elaborate Mardi Gras masks. But have you ever wondered about the ...

In New Orleans for the Mardi Gras, I, surely, wasn’t ready for the ... A lithe woman in crocodile mask and a wagging scaly ...

Known for its spectacular parades, floats, marching bands, throws, and King cake, Mardi Gras is the biggest celebration in New Orleans. The first recorded Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans took ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — While Mardi Gras organizations parade through the streets of downtown Mobile, there is one couple who attends every one of them: the ‘Mobile Mask.’ Ever since he was an ...

L. Kasimu Harris for The New York Times Supported by By Brett Anderson NEW ORLEANS — Last January, Polly Watts estimated how much alcohol she would need to make it through Mardi Gras at her bar, ...

NEW ORLEANS – The 37 th annual French Market Mardi Gras Mask Market will host twelve artisan mask makers from around the country. The market will go from February 21-24, in Dutch Alley ...

Ann Guccione has sold her creative masks at the French Market’s Mardi Gras Mask Market for the past 20 years with her sister Laura; they’re back this weekend. “You can be whoever you want to ...

Last year’s theme was Mardi Gras costumes, so masks just seemed to fit ... from Bishop’s Palace in 2008 and returned two and a half years later. The New Jersey-based artist was delighted ...

Every year, she gets commissions for purple, green, and gold masks to wear at Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, and last year, the organizer of that city’s Mardi Gras Mask Market invited her to ...