New Orleans

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It's Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras that is celebrated on the Gulf Coast. New Orleans is well known for its celebrations. Other towns that have a celebration is Biloxi, MS, Lafayette, LA, Shreveport, LA and Galveston, TX. But the city that is world famous for the parades and frolicking is New Orleans!

Fat Tuesday got off to an early morning start in the Big Easy.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former President Bush is returning to New Orleans — the scene of one of his presidency's lowest points — to remember the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

It's Fat Tuesday or otherwise known as Mardi Gras in The South and the party capital of Mardi Gras is New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sixteen years after he burst on the New Orleans political scene as a charming, reform-minded businessman vowing to clean up city government, former Mayor Ray Nagin walked out of a federal courthouse as the glum embodiment of how far a politician can fall.

Matt Forte’s Chicago Bears didn’t make the playoffs this year, but the fifth-year running back out of Tulane came out to represent the team at this year’s NFL Honors in New Orleans on Saturday night.

Willie Nelson and Little Big Town will represent country music proudly at the 2013 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, a two-weekend event that celebrates Louisiana's musical culture with a diverse lineup of music's biggest names.