fat tuesday
February 16th, 2010
Get New Orleans Mardi Gras news, with videos, photos & schedules of Mardi Gras carnival parade. Post your pictures, comment on the news, and join the forum discussions at NOLA.com. It's Fat Tuesday, the annual Mardi Gras party day before we plunge into the season of Lent. The tradition is that we pig out today in one, final gorge – usually involving copious amounts of food and booze – before the solemn season of Fat Tuesday Crunch Tuesday. Before the second and final day of the Vatican's unprecedented sex-abuse summit with the Irish bishops, the prelates are asleep behind the walls at the "conclave hotel" — the Vatican's Domus Sancta