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.

Celebrity and former LSU star Shaquille O’Neal was named this year’s king of New Orleans’ Bacchus parade. Bacchus krewe captain Clark Brennan announced that O’Neal will reign as Bacchus LVI. O’Neal was recently in New Orleans for the Super Bowl.

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.

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.

Mardi Gras floats with bead-tossing revelers cruised through New Orleans on Saturday as the city celebrated its record-tying 11th Super Bowl hosting gig with a stout security presence after a New Year's Day attack.

When it comes to Super Bowl parades, we don't usually see one until a team actually wins the game, but in New Orleans, they do things differently and that's a big reason why the city decided to hold a parade the day BEFORE the Super Bowl.

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.

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.