BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Krewe Mystique de la Capitale is one of the longest-running Mardi Gras parades in Baton Rouge. The parade was started by two krewes in 1976, Knights of Nineveh and the ...

The Mystic Krewe of Apollo de Lafayette is the longest-running gay Mardi Gras krewe outside of New Orleans. The Lafayette krewe was born in 1976, a sister organization of the New Orleans krewe that ...

Hours before any parade rolled through the streets of downtown Mobile, many locals set up their lawn chairs, snuggled up in blankets at 7 a.m.

As Blaine Kern Sr. eyed the gaggle of tourists filing into Mardi Gras World’s gift shop, he flipped on his Mr. Mardi Gras grin, his calling card for nine decades and counting. "I'm the guy who started ...