Mardi Gras (disambiguation)

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Mardi Gras refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday.

Mardi Gras may also refer to:

Festivals

Mardi Gras in Mobile, annual Carnival festival held in Mobile, Alabama
New Orleans Mardi Gras, annual Carnival festival held in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Mardi Gras throws, strings of beads, doubloons, cups, and other trinkets typical of the New Orleans Mardi Gras
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, at one stage temporarily the Sydney Mardi Gras, a gay pride parade held annually in Sydney, Australia

Business and transportation

Mardi Gras (brand), line of paper towels and napkins made by Georgia-Pacific
Mardi-Gras (ship), originally the RMS Empress of Canada (1961), the first ship owned by Carnival Cruise Lines
Mardi Gras, a Manhattan topless bar that Matthew Ianniello and his associates were convicted in 1986 of secretly owning and skimming money from

Arts and entertainment

Film

Mardi Gras (1943 film), a short
Mardi Gras (1958 film), a musical starring Pat Boone
Mardi Gras: Spring Break, a 2011 American film starring Carmen Electra

Music

Mardi Gras (album), a 1972 album by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Mardi Gras (EP), a 2010 EP by Cowboy Mouth
Mardi Gras (music group), a New York City based rock'n'roll band successful in the early 1970s in Europe

Theater

Mardi Gras! (musical), a musical produced by Guy Lombardo at the Jones Beach Marine Theater in 1965 and 1966

People

Mardi Gras Indians, African-American Carnival revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, who dress up as Native Americans
Edgar Pearce, (born 1937/38) the "Mardi Gra bomber", responsible for a terror campaign in London during the mid-1990s

See also

MardiGrass, a cannabis-law reform festival held in the town of Nimbin, in north east New South Wales, Australia

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