Bourbon Street Awards hosts Varla Jean Merman and Fatsy Cline watch as a best drag costume contestant poses during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

No, really. If you want more than the most obvious Mardi Gras experience, stay off Bourbon Street. On Fat Tuesday, Feb. 16 this year, and the gloriously chaotic days prior, that fabled party route ...

Mardi Gras Merriment Beyond Bourbon Street Festivities Chasing chickens, catching MoonPies or towing your fishing boat as a parade float — those are just a few of the lesser-known traditions of ...

The scene on Bourbon Street on Tuesday was in stark contrast to Mardi Gras crowds last year that were later blamed for a Louisiana outbreak of COVID-19.

Revelers walk on Bourbon street on the Friday before Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune) ...

At the stroke of midnight, New Orleans law enforcement officers and the city’s mayor make a clean sweep of Bourbon Street to close out a successful Mardi Gras season.

Mardi Gras 2015 officially came to a close at midnight with the symbolic closure of Bourbon Street.New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Michael Harrison and Louisiana State Police ...

No, really. If you want more than the most obvious Mardi Gras experience, stay off Bourbon Street. On Fat Tuesday, Feb. 16 this year, and the gloriously chaotic days prior, that fabled party route ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Music blared from the courtyard of a French Quarter restaurant on Mardi Gras morning but nobody was there to hear it until Tom Gibson and Sheila Wheeler of Philadelphia walked ...

The scene on Bourbon Street on Tuesday was in stark contrast to Mardi Gras crowds last year that were later blamed for a Louisiana outbreak of COVID-19.

This combination of Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, left, and Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 photos shows Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Mardi Gras day. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, Rusty Costanza ...