Creator & Host of Galveston Unscripted Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday or Carnival, is a vibrant and thrilling festival celebrated from Europe to South America to Mobile, New Orleans, and a little island off the coast of Texas. Galveston Island is home to the 3rd largest Mardi Gras Celebration in the United States. Like many celebratory traditions in Galveston, Mardi Gras is not only a holiday or just an excuse to let your inhibitions run wild, but it is a time of year

My older brother - a Houston city boy who immediately fell in love with Louisiana during his first year at LSU - was always infatuated with Mardi Gras; well, with Cajun culture in general. He died in February of this year. Yet, his spirit, as well as those of all the others who have passed who loved Mardi Gras, still feels palpable this time of year; their energy is in the air. My brother loved Mardi Gras so much that he was actually on a special edition of the show Cops, cov

The Knights of Momus is the grandest and oldest Krewe supporting the social and civic efforts of Galveston's historic Mardi Gras, the traditional carnival of feasting and merrymaking that precedes the solemn season of Lent. In 1867, just two years after the close of the War Between the States, the citizens of Galveston proclaimed the island's first public celebration of Mardi Gras. It was a first for Texas, as well. Shortly thereafter, in 1871, a group of Galveston's most dis

Mardi Gras, French for “Fat Tuesday”, is traditionally a festive day celebrated in France on Shrove Tuesday (the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday), which marks the close of the pre-Lenten season. Lent, in the Christian church, is a period of penitential preparation for Easter. In Western churches, it begins on Ash Wednesday, six and a half weeks before Easter, and provides a 40-day period for fasting and abstinence (Sundays are excluded), in imitation of Jesus Christ’s fasting i

It is pretty well known, at least on our little island, that Galveston began celebrating Mardi Gras before New Orleans. Granted, we’ve had our fits and starts, such as the 1900 Storm and that little dust up with the Germans and Japanese in the 40s, but 1985 was the beginning of a new era. The opening of the Tremont, along with other properties, would up the ante on Galveston tourism and forever alter our ideas of municipal revenue. There was a lot of hype for Mardi Gras 1985.