Bourbon Street Awards hosts Varla Jean Merman and Fatsy Cline watch as a best drag costume contestant poses during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The ...

A reveler takes a moment to play a game of chess on Bourbon street on the Friday before Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune) ...

No, really. If you want more than the most obvious Mardi Gras experience, stay off Bourbon Street. On Fat Tuesday, Feb. 16 this year, and the gloriously chaotic days prior, that fabled party route ...

At the stroke of midnight, New Orleans law enforcement officers and the city’s mayor make a clean sweep of Bourbon Street to close out a successful Mardi Gras season.

Downtown Canal Street also was all but empty. Bourbon Street, where Mardi Gras crowds are usually the most crowded and rowdy, was blocked off by police barricades at the end of each block. Bars were ...

Enter Mobile, Alabama, the true OG of Mardi Gras, and St. Louis, Missouri, the Midwest’s crown jewel of debauchery (or as much debauchery as Midwesterners can comfortably handle).

Music blared from the courtyard of a French Quarter restaurant on Mardi Gras morning but nobody was there to hear it until Tom Gibson and Sheila Wheeler of Philadelphia walked out of their hotel&#8… ...

This combination of Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, left, and Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 photos shows Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Mardi Gras day. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, Rusty Costanza ...

The scene on Bourbon Street on Tuesday was in stark contrast to Mardi Gras crowds last year that were later blamed for a Louisiana outbreak of COVID-19.