Sacramento broke out the beads for a Mardi Gras Festival on Saturday night, with creative floats from the City of ... pirates, and a dragon. Event organizers estimated it involved more than ...

From the Ground Up: Mardi Gras Floats is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

And what would the Mardi Gras parade be without the gigantic, ornate floats? The world-famous floats take a year to make. Well, nearly a year. 50 weeks, to be exact, because for two weeks they're ...

Mardi Gras World offers a close-up look at some of the flamboyant floats and costumes used during New Orleans' famous party. One thing to know upfront: This isn't a museum – it's a warehouse ...

Everybody's got 200 pounds of beads and their attic from past Mardi Gras parades," she said. The idea soon blew up. Before she knew it, people around the city were turning their homes into floats.

Mardi Gras floats “could become unstable” and heavy winds could “blow down trees and power lines,” the National Weather Service warned, adding gusts of up to 60 mph (97 kph) are expected ...

The floats. The costumes. The parties. The beads. So many beads. Mardi Gras is a long-standing tradition, filled with fun, families and often, a lot of booze. But there's something really ...

New Orleans moved up its two biggest Mardi Gras Day parades and cut down their ... to keep the hundreds of participants and dozens of floats moving quickly so they finish before winds are expected ...

Credit: Supplied by Albie Prias About 208 floats and 12,500 participants fill the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade in Oxford street. Through their unique costumes, participants like the Filipino community ...