People are kicking off Mardi Gras today by gorging their faces for the sacred Fat Tuesday feast — check out what a few of Hollywood's hottest would look… By Shelby Hodge University of St. Thomas Mardi Gras Ball chairs Kelli Kickerillo and Phyllis Mandola had set the goal high for the 62nd annual Fat...
Yesterday was Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Day, Mardi Gras, and Fat Tuesday), the day preceding Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Shrove Tuesday is primarily celebrated in English speaking countries, but Yesterday was Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Day, Mardi Gras, and Fat Tuesday), the day preceding Ash Wednesday, the...
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You don't need to live in New Orleans to enjoy the local festivities of Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday! There is something so colorful and fun about the New Orleans' King Cake that I have to make it every year just to feel like I'm For those of you lucky enough to be in...
By Tim Grobaty, Columnist GIVE IT UP FOR LENT: My God, Lent is here already and, as always, we don't know what sort of sacrifice we're going to make during the 40-day (more or less) period of voluntary (and mandatory) abstinence. Lent has officially arrived. Time to put away the beads, thaw the fish...
By Rene Lynch Fat Tuesday is better known in some parts of the world as Pancake Day. As we prepare to mark the official end of Mardi Gras 2012 with some King Cake — while preparing for Lent, of course — it's worth taking a look at what just might be Fat Tuesday marks...
Royal sugar rush. "Mardi Gras" is French for "Fat Tuesday," as it is the day before Ash Wednesday and the Christian season of Lent. Lent commemorates and honors the 40 days Jesus There is a cure to the “I'm-Not-in-New-Orleans” blues and it's called the King Cake. The popular pastry...
As you may have heard, February 21st is Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday or, as it's known here in Britain, Shrove Tuesday. by Frank James Rick Santorum greets people at the Michigan Faith & Freedom Coalition rally in Shelby Township, Mich., Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. Rick Santorum greets people at the Michigan Faith & Freedom...
Second Avenue United Methodist Church, 801 E. Second Ave., will have an Ash Wednesday service in the sanctuary. Silver Creek Presbyterian Church, 6 Old Rockmart Road, Silver Creek, will be have Ash Wednesday worship service at 6 pm For more information FASTING: Catholics who are 18 year old and up, until their 59th birthday...
February 20, 2012 (WLS) — Chef Toni Marie Cox from Toni Patisserie & Cafe makes a traditional King Cake just in time for Mardi Gras. The King Cake is a New Orleans tradition that's baked with a small plastic baby or trinket hidden inside. But ask Kim and Jake Rosenbarger, who once lived in...