Mardi Gras (disambiguation)
Mardi Gras refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany, and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday.
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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 several ships bearing the name
- Mardi Gras, a line of napkins (and formerly, paper towels) made by Georgia-Pacific
- Mardi Gras, a Manhattan topless bar that Matthew Ianniello and his associates were convicted in 1986 of secretly owning and skimming money from
Arts, entertainment, and media
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
- "Take Me to the Mardi Gras", a 1973 song by Paul Simon, covered by Bob James from the 1975 album Two; this version containing a widely recognized drum break
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
- Mardi (disambiguation)
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