In Branch, VaCajun is busy crafting hundreds of Courir de Mardi Gras costumes. We got an inside look at their meticulous ...

EUNICE, La. (KLFY) — The Courir de Mardi Gras tradition is still celebrated in Cajun Country, along with its traditional costumes. However, there are few traditional costume makers left. Susana Ortego ...

Karen Thibodeaux, the owner of Vacajun is known for making costumes for the Mardi Gras season. It was orginally just a sewing business at her home, but it progressed to Mardi Gras ball gowns and ...

Crawfish boils. Disco balls. Popeyes chicken and biscuits. Barbie girls. And a bunch of Morris Bart. All of these things are pretty iconic in New Orleans, but Mardi Gras revelers made these items ...

GULF COAST, Miss. (WLOX) - On Sunday, seamstress Shelia Gray of Vancleave showed off some of her finest handmade Mardi Gras costumes. In less than a month, the streets of the Mississippi Gulf Coast ...

Once a year, New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood comes alive in a rainbow of intricately beaded costumes and feathers, paraded through the streets in a mesmerizing “strut.” In a city known for its ...

San Nicholas was a New Orleans character if there ever was one — the kind who could talk for hours about his life and have the listeners convinced by conversation’s end that they needed to write a ...

People donning skeleton masks and antlers on their heads gathered in New Orleans’ historic Treme neighborhood as the sun rose Tuesday, determined to beat an expected storm and celebrate Mardi Gras Day ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — People donning skeleton ...