Fat Tuesday - or Mardi Gras - is followed by Ash Wednesday to kick off the start of Lent. Here's what to know about fish ...

From high-energy parades to colorful beads and masks, there are dozens of traditions involved in Mardi Gras, also known as ...

Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday, is on Tuesday ... The cake is a cross between a coffee cake and a French pastry and traditionally contains a tiny plastic or porcelain baby figurine.

Mardi Gras gives people the opportunity to celebrate before the Lenten season, where people become more disciplined and give up habits for 40 days.

(Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday in French ... such as chocolate or coffee or snacks. It is also common practice in the Catholic church to abstain from eating meat on Fridays during the Lenten ...

The Carnival season, or Mardi Gras season, officially begins on Epiphany, Jan. 6, and lasts through Fat Tuesday.

Mardi Gras is a weeks-long celebration that culminates on Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. Fat Tuesday, often seen as the final burst of excitement before the solemn preparations for ...