The carnival period, with its decreased rules, culminated with one last day of celebration, Mardi Gras, followed by a period of fasting, Lent. In Louisiana, the period of parades and celebrations ...

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BUFFALO — A jolly priest ran down Broadway in a drenched black robe, flinging holy water at post-Lenten revelers from a small broom. A man in a cowboy hat hung out the window of a butter yellow ...

Some see the special holiday as a reverse Mardi Gras, with Fat Tuesday happening the day before Lent starts and Dyngus Day the day after Lent ends. “In general, Dyngus Day is the celebration of ...

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If Jan. 6 was Mardi Gras, the Archives incident was a sleepy Sunday morning in Lent. And yet Eidinger, unlike the pardoned mob that stormed the Capitol, still faces the possibility of jail time ...