National railroad company Amtrak gave details April 24 about a much anticipated service connecting Mobile, Alabama, and New ...

Celebrate Mardi Gras at Port Orleans with a unique parade! Princess Tiana opens the festivities and then is followed by creative staff made parade floats themed after various Disney properties. Which ...

Blending pagan rituals with Catholic tradition, Dyngus Day in Buffalo is a lighthearted festival to celebrate the end of Lent ...

Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson expressed his excitement regarding the new Amtrak passenger rail line's name, which pays homage ...

“In general, Dyngus Day is the celebration of springtime, renewal, rebirth, a new growing season, longer days, and warmer ...

America’s passenger railroad today officially announced the new Amtrak Mardi Gras Service with twice-daily runs between New ...

Flagboy Giz tracks the entire history "We Outside," a song that began as a Mardi Gras hit and turned into a New Orleans ...

I COULDN’T care less if Moygashel wants to pay tribute to one of the UDR men who slaughtered the Miami Showband.

An order by Malaysia’s education ministry requiring pupils to wear a patch of the country’s flag stitched on their uniforms has been questioned by some as unnecessary, with parents and ...

For 40 days every spring, Christians observe the season of repentance and fasting known as Lent. In New Orleans, the change from Mardi Gras to Lent is striking.

In New Orleans, the contrast from Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday to Ash Wednesday and weeks of reflection is particularly stark, as member station WWNO's Rosemary Westwood reports. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC ...