Critics say bars' surgery giveaway is demeaning to participants With Mardi Gras a memory New Orleans sobers up Costumes beads give way ashes in Nation focus Will Ferrell King of Gras! parades take over NATO troops Afghanistan celebrate Video Gulfstream packs on pounds for Fat Tuesday consume Adam Levine Surprises Anne V Las Vegas! ABQ Man Stabbed After Brawl Partyers full force Tulsa style revelry fun Slideshow and Carnival

Mardi Gras traditions different for everybody For Ryle Ordoyne, it's running around in tiny circles on an empty street, waiting for the roar of police motorcycles and their glaring sirens that herald the coming of the floats. Mardi Gras 2012 Photos: Before the Beads turned to Ashes in New Orleans Mardi Gras 2012 Photos! Over the four-day weekend there was drinking, dancing, and King Cake eating as the streets of New Orleans flooded with flamboyant costumes, frivolous floats, and frolicking late night flesh-flashers. Mardi Gras celebration rocks New Orleans with Fat Tuesday music, revelry and parades From the family-friendly avenues of the Garden District to raunchy displays in the French Quarter, New Orleans let loose with a Fat Tuesday party as parades rolled and revelers frolicked amid showers of beads, trinkets and music. Costumes, beads give way to ashes in New Orleans As Carnival 2012 ends in Crescent City, Mardi Gras revelers begin to prepare for beginning of Lent Lakeside tastes Mardi Gras madness Lakeside Elementary School fourth graders reveled in a Louisiana tradition Tuesday. Mardi Gras Throws City Economic Boost From Visitors As the sun rose on Ash Wednesday, hours after the streets were crammed with revelers of Mardi Gras, police and tourism leaders were overall pleased with the festivities. Fat times for Gulf Coast towns Flambeaux carriers march through the crowds lining the streets watching the Muses Mardi Gras Parade as it moves through the streets of New Orleans on Thursday. Mardi Gras' costumes, beads give way to Lent's ashes in New Orleans Loading Photo Galleries ... NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officers on horseback cleared Bourbon Street early today, declaring an end to Carnival 2012 in New Orleans as Mardi Gras revelers began to prepare for the beginning of Lent, the period of fasting and repentance before Easter. New Orleans Mardi Gras basks in beads BATHED in spring-like warmth and showered with trinkets, New Orleans revelled in excesses of Fat Tuesday. Costumes, beads consume Mardi Gras in New Orleans As the sun began to set and the traditional family-atmosphere of Mardi Gras along St. Charles Avenue ended, streams of revelers poured into New Orleans' French Quarter to continue the party well into the night.
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