Tag: Mardi Gras
Designing the Ultimate Mobile Mardi Gras Train
Leading ladies, kings and queens will be dripping in rhinestones and shimmery satins come Mardi Gras. But what does the ultimate Mobile Bay train look like? Designer Julia Greer Fobes maps it out.
Don’t Rain on Our Parade
A close-knit group of Mardi Gras lovers can always be found on Battle House balcony on Fat Tuesday, no matter the weather.
Mardi Gras 2024 Parade Schedule
It's the most wonderful time of the year. Let the good times roll, Mobile!
What Happened to the Cowbellions?
Mobile’s original mystic society, which reigned supreme over celebration and mirth in 19th-century Mobile, danced into oblivion some 60 years after it was founded.
Mr. Star Class
Part adrenaline-chasing sailor, part ground-breaking float artist, George Criminale Sr. was as Mobile as it gets.
Ask McGehee: Who was the British nobleman who served as king of Mobile’s Mardi...
The only British-born monarch of Mobile’s Mardi Gras was Arthur Shirley Benn. The year was 1896, but he served under the name of “Emperor of Joy” rather than King Felix.
MoonPie, MoonPie, Fly to Me
Whether being thrown from a float, caught mid-air or dropped from a building, no town does MoonPies like Mobile.
The Mardi Gras Master of Make-Believe
John Augustus Walker changed the world of float design and made Mobile’s Mardi Gras a sight to behold.
A Look at the Art of Mardi Gras
In all its gaudy grandeur, Carnival utilizes — and manifests itself in — every form of art.
Best of Mardi Gras Photo Contest
Experience Carnival through the eyes of our readers in our 2023 Mardi Gras Photo Contest.