Mardi Gras

Manuel Randazzo Sr. was one of the co-creators of his family's famous king cake recipe. A recipe that has been a Mardi Gras tradition sense 1965.

The oldest parading krewe in the Ark-La-Tex is already preparing for the upcoming Mardi Gras season and they're ready to announce the theme of this year's Gemini festivities!

If you thought Mardi Gras in northwest Louisiana was something that just happened around Fat Tuesday with a few parades, you're sadly mistaken!

A biologist at LSU has developed Mardi Gras beads that are biodegradable. Will we soon see this beads flying from floats across our great state?

Just send one out over the parade route loaded down with throws, and "laissez bomb temps rouler!"

A video surfaced on social media after a recent Mardi Gras celebration in Mamou and it shows someone dancing with a prosthetic leg in a bar.

One New Orleans woman had a wild Mardi Gras, and lived to tell us the incredible tale.

The signs and the throws make it very unique

What if you took two of your favorite Louisiana items and mashed them together to make a delicious Fat Tuesday meal?

The Krewe of Gemini began rolling 30 years ago to bring Mardi Gras back to Shreveport Bossier. But our area actually celebrated Mardi Gras as far back as 1927.
Here's amazing video from the LSUS Archives showing some of the floats from that day.

We must ask ourselves; Louisiana, can't we do better?

Remember the story this past Mardi Gras about literally tons of beads clogging drains? That could soon be a thing of the past.