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Carolina Beer Guy: Breweries catch the Mardi Gras spirit
Burial, Catawba, Oskar Blues, Ecusta and Sierra Nevada let the good times roll with holiday celebrations.
Beer Scout: Burial’s Mardi Gras grows; Hi-Wire hosts N.C. Small Batch Festival
Breweries fete New Orleans and North Carolina with upcoming events.
Small bites: Celebration time at Short Street Cakes
Cake, cocktails and music will be in play at Short Street Cakes’ eight-year anniversary event. Also this week: tequila tastings, a Winter Beer Dinner, New Orleans cuisine and more.
UPDATE: Paint the Town Red with the Red Cross
Tips are highly encouraged at this competitive bartending event, not only to raise extra funds, but also because the celebrity guest with the most overflowing jar will be crowned the Mardi Gras King or Queen. The benefit night is at various bars on Fat Tuesday, March 29.
In photos: Asheville Mardi Gras parade 2016
This year’s theme was saints and sinners, and the 2016 Asheville Mardi Gras parade brought thousands out in sunny weather to watch the spectacle.
Smart bets: Asheville Mardi Gras’ 12th Night
All are welcome to dance their way into 2016 in an imaginative getup (optional). The kickoff event is at The Grove House Wednesday, Jan. 6, at 7 p.m.
Ashen faces: Episcopal clergy bring Ash Wednesday ritual to the streets
This past Ash Wednesday, Episcopal priests and clergy left their churches and convened on the streets of downtown Asheville, West Asheville and at the High Smith Student Union at UNCA to offer passers-by an ashen cross on their forehead, a traditional rite of Ash Wednesday.
In (more) photos: Asheville Mardi Gras Parade and Queen’s Ball
It may have been a cloudy day, but the streets of Asheville were lined with bright colors for the Asheville Mardi Gras parade on Sunday, March 2. Following the parade, folks in feathered costumes followed one another across downtown to pack into Pack’s Tavern for the Queen’s Ball.
Mardi Gras parade brings color to gray downtown Asheville day
Hundreds turned out in the cold rain to watch the local Mardi Gras parade downtown.
(photos by Bill Rhodes)
G.A. Davis and Sara Day fire beads and birdseed out of their canon on Haywood Street.
Mardi Gras comes to Asheville
On Jan. 21 I attended Asheville Mardi Gras’ Cajun Cookoff with Art and Oddities Auction at Tressa’s and it was fabulous! The place was dripping in purple, green and gold, and packed with friendly folks of all ages and backgrounds in costumes from lavish to frivolous, sampling sumptuous dishes that rivaled the fare at our […]
Mardi Gras nears — the king and queen await your pleasure
Asheville’s Mardi Gras parade will kick off at 2 p.m. on Feb. 19. There’s still lots of time to get your krewe together and your costume prepared.
Crawdaddies for everyone
Chow down on Louisiana’s finest cuisine and kick up your heels at a Mardi Gras Cajun cook-off. Photo by Bill Rhodes
Asheville’s Twelfth Night party at MoDaddy’s
Twelfth Night is an old, traditional time of merriment in many Western cultures. Most now think of it as the start of the Carnival season leading up to Mardi Gras.
Mardi Gras Cook-off
Whether you have a flare for preparing authentic cajun cuisine or you simply enjoy tasting it, everyone is welcome to the annual Cajun Cook-off fundraiser this Sunday in West Asheville.
Mardi Gras in Asheville: See it, hear it, feel it
It’s Fat Tuesday, the culmination of Mardi Gras. Relive the revelry so far — the costumes, the streets filled with beads, the carousing and parading — with Xpress photos and videos.
On the Twelfth Night of Christmas, New Orleans gave to me … a big colorful party
Calling all New Orleans ex-pats, New Orleans aficionados and lovers of les bons temps — Asheville’s Mystic Mountain Krewe will host a Twelfth Night Celebration at ED Boudreaux’s on Tuesday, Jan. 6.
Mardi Gras galore!
Yesterday’s Mardi Gras parade took the local celebration to new heights in Asheville. Have a look …
Be it flash, class or trash, it’s Mardi Gras
The Mystic Mountain Krewe, a “multibunch of fun-loving folk,” according to one member, has invited everyone to “strut with us” in the upcoming Asheville Mardi Gras Parade. Scheduled for (Fat) Tuesday, Feb. 5, it will be the first-ever permitted parade to flood the city’s streets in honor of Mardi Gras. Several weeks ago, the same […]
