Good times roll: Party on with these Mardi Gras recipes
Next Tuesday — Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday — is Mardi Gras season’s grand finale. Feb. 25 marks the culmination of Carnival celebrations. It’s the last day and night of eating anything we want before the ritual feasting of the Lenten season.
Police: New Orleans crash driver spoke of ‘drinking problem’
A driver suspected of killing two people and injuring seven others, most of them on bikes, as large crowds gathered in New Orleans for Mardi Gras told police after the deadly crash, “I have a drinking problem,” according to a police report.
A taste of the Big Easy
Renee Verner hopes this past Saturday is the one and only time a tornado warning sends her hurrying to shelter in the middle of prepping to feed several hundred people. It makes for just a little too much excitement.
Mayor says New Orleans ‘more than prepared for Mardi Gras’
As New Orleans prepares for the height of the Carnival season, the city’s mayor outlined security and infrastructure preparations and said the city is “more than prepared for Mardi Gras 2019.”
Ask Rufus: Celebrating Mardi Gras
Fat Tuesday is fast approaching with the end of carnival season and Mardi Gras.
As Mardi Gras revelry ends with a party, Lent begins
After a day of parades, blaring marching bands, elaborate costumes and crowds screaming for beads, another Mardi Gras celebration is over.
Mardi Gras crash suspect’s alcohol level nearly triple limit
The driver accused of plowing into a crowd enjoying a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans had a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit, police said.
Police: 2 guns used in Miss. Mardi Gras shooting
Two guns were used in a shooting that killed two men and injured four other people after a Mardi Gras parade in Mississippi, but investigators don’t know how many people fired them, the police chief said Monday.
Mardi Gras: Last tipsy revelers sent home, trash swept up
Mardi Gras 2015 is officially over and the last tipsy revelers in New Orleans have been cleared from city streets.
Starkville retirement home throws Mardi Gras party
As Mardi Gras celebrations rage throughout the country today in well-known party hubs like Mobile and New Orleans, the 60 residents of Boardtown Village in Starkville are throwing their own smaller, but no less enthusiastic, party.
Adele Elliott: Laissez les bons temps rouler
Tuesday, March 4, will be an ordinary day almost every place in the world — except in New Orleans.
King cake: An area cook gives Mardi Gras the ‘royal’ treatment
Growing up in Texas, Marina Loper’s family made many a king cake, but it’s not what you think. Those pastries had nothing to do with Mardi Gras; they were cakes the Hispanic community topped with dried fruits and served at Twelfth Night, commemorating the wise men — the kings — arriving to honor the baby Jesus.
Healthy duck? For Mardi Gras, we make it possible
With Mardi Gras looming, I thought it might be fun to cook up some New Orleans-styled goodies featuring duck, andouille sausage and Creole seasoning. These rich ingredients are typical of the fare from this town that knows how to party — an instinct that goes into overdrive during Mardi Gras.
Fond memories of days in the Big Easy
So it finally happened. After years of making and buying King Cakes, I finally got the prized plastic baby. Now granted, my chances dramatically increased due to the fact that the only other person in the baby race was my wife.
Bring a little Mardi Gras madness home
Mardi Gras. It’s been called the season of “voluntary madness” — with parades, masks, floats, music and outlandish costumes. The revelry builds to a crescendo between Epiphany (Jan. 6) and Fat Tuesday, which falls this year on Feb. 21.