Carnival Season is in full swing and Fat Tuesday will soon be here. If you're planning to hit the parades, these are the top 3 in New Orleans.

You saw Soul Queen Irma Thomas sing with Mick Jagger at Jazz Fest last spring. Now, you’ll see a statue of the Crescent City icon on the bow of a new float in the Krewe of Freret Mardi Gras parade that rolls on Feb. 22.

Yountville is bringing a taste of New Orleans to Napa Valley on March 1. Yountville is bringing a taste of New Orleans to Napa Valley this spring with its inaugural Mardi Gras Parade & Celebration on March 1 — a new event that organizers hope will become a lively tradition.

Football fans in New Orleans were treated to a first of its kind Super Bowl Mardi Gras parade Shortsighted actions can have big-time consequences for retired workers. Irish super-featherweight boxer John Cooney dies after suffering a brain injury in last Saturday's defeat by Welshman Nathan Howells in Belfast.

The Nefertiti parade will roll along Lake Forest and Read boulevards in New Orleans East starting at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16. With Endymion, NOMTOC and Zulu, it is one of the few Orleans Parish float parades that roll through neighborhoods beyond the standard St. Charles Avenue parade route.

Never a city short on color, New Orleans has been looking positively brightly adorned in recent days, as the city undergoes its makeover for Super Bowl LIX.