mardi gras

It's Mardi Gras time! The second annual Texarkana Mardi Gras is coming up on Saturday, March 1 at Front Street Festival Plaza in Downtown Texarkana.

Celebrate Mardi Gras in Texarkana for the very first festival ever to be held in the Twin Cities!  Be on Front Street to catch the thousands of throws during the Krewe of Koinonia parade. Below is the schedule of events and list of vendors that will be at this event.

Front Street Festival Plaza in historical downtown Texarkana, Arkansas is making history with its First Annual Front Street Texarkana Mardi Gras Festival, Parade, and Street Dance. Mark your calendars for Saturday, Feb. 9, because Mardi Gras will provide some great fun for families as well as those that like to party it up.

It used to be you had to drive to Shreveport to get a little flavor of the Mardi Gras season. Well, no more because the city of Texarkana, Ark. is putting together its first ever Mardi Gras Festival and Parade on Saturday, Feb. 9.

Did you think Mardi Gras was strictly a New Orleans thing? Think again. In Belgium Mardi Gras is the most important day of the year. Belgians celebrate the Carnival of Binche in the city of Binche, which features lots of music and dancing. Sweden celebrates Fettisdagen, translating to "Fat Tuesday." In Canada Mardi Gras is celebrated throughout the country, especially in the french-speak

Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday," a reference to the binge eating a lot of Catholics do before Lent. As is often the case with holidays, the Christian roots are intertwined with earlier pagan practices. It was very common for early church fathers to integrate elements of pagan ritual in an attempt to attract potential converts. Mardi Gras itself originated in the Middle Ages and wa