Mardi Gras

Win Young Frankenstein tickets

2012-04-05 06:18:00

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Feb. 20-26 in nightlife: Rick Ross, Blake Shelton, Guns N' Roses and more

2012-02-20 08:00:00

Judging by this week's nightlife offerings, Thursday has the most talent. If you missed out on Guns N' Roses tickets (sorry Axl enthusiasts, if you lost out on tickets), there's Rick Ross, Islands and White Life to choose from. But there are plenty of...

It's fat city, as Havre de Grace tricks out for Mardi Gras

2012-02-22 17:47:00

The biting wind couldn't keep the crowd away from Havre de Grace's annual Mardi Gras party Tuesday evening. People ready to celebrate Fat Tuesday lined up on the sidewalks of St. John Street. Several came dressed for the occasion — colorful beads...

Nonprofit transportation group convinces Giant to help it bus seniors to new store

2012-03-20 03:50:00

Aleene Johnson was among a steady stream of seniors, some holding canes and reusable canvass grocery bags, who boarded a shuttle bus to the Rotunda Giant on March 15. Johnson, who lives in the Broadview Apartments on University Parkway, said she wasn't...

Letter: Call it Mardi de Grace

2012-03-08 06:11:00

Editor: Havre de Grace threw a grand celebration for Mardi Gras with a colorful parade and festivities Feb. 21. Thank you to the Tuesday crowds of 1,500-2,000 onlookers. Hundreds of glittering beads were tossed to cheering revelers. The holiday fun...

St. Vincent Pallotti High's spring gala offers 'Mardi Grad Madness'

2012-03-08 12:59:00

St. Vincent Pallotti High's spring gala fundraiser, "Mardi Gras Madness," will be held Saturday, March 24 from 7 to 11 p.m., at the University of Maryland, Marriott Inn and Conference Center, 3501 University Blvd. east, in Hyattsville. The fundraiser...

Rodgers Forge: Lenten season brings slate of activities at area churches

2012-02-16 12:16:00

Now that Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow and we've all declared our love for family, friends and others at Valentine's Day, it won't be long before local Christians begin the six-week observance of Lent. Our area churches will inaugurate the Lenten...

Baltimore ready to take on Mardi Gras

2012-02-15 06:35:00

Valentine's Day is history, moving on to Mardi Gras. For some folks, Mardi Gras means a one-day celebration on Fat Tuesday itself; for others, that day is just the end of a revelry period that began on thethe Epiphany. And some folks call it Carnival....

Watching the ball drop — at noon

2011-12-31 16:56:00

At half past noon on New Year's Eve, slivers of yellow confetti littered the main lobby of the Maryland Science Center, where employees worked to sweep them up. There, the ball had already dropped — long before the stroke of midnight which, for...

George and Mitt Romney: Like father, unlike son

2012-01-04 12:56:00

In an effort to drum up interest in his presidential bid for the 1968 elections, Michigan's governor, George Romney — Mitt Romney's father — went into the belly of the beast. During the summer of 1967, the elder Romney gave a stump speech in...

Visitors guide is not just for the county's out-of-town guests

2012-02-14 00:00:00

You don't have to be from out of town to take advantage of the newest Visitor's Guide to Howard County, produced by Howard County Tourism and available at their Welcome Center in the former Main Street Post Office, as well as other venues around the...

West Friendship: Stranger helps keep woman alive during moment of crisis

2012-02-11 00:00:00

Blanche DuBois knew all about the "kindness of strangers." After the happenings in the early morning hours of Jan. 24, so too, does West Friendship's Denise Oursler. Denise's daughter, Jill Haas, had just left the Oursler home on Route 144 to wait for...

Once upon a time, Disney's Pleasure Island threw a Mardi Gras parade with stilt walker, beads and more.

2012-05-14 12:58:00

The giant King Gator float has been a mainstay in Universal Studios' Mardi Gras parade for years.

2012-05-10 00:00:00

Father Jack Stanton from Miami is arrested by Hallandale Police along with 24 other protestors blocking one of the entrances into Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale in protest of the firing of 10 employees Tuesday night after they marched along with a couple of hundred supporters to the casino.

2012-05-04 00:00:00