Mardi Gras is one of the best celebrations of the year. Between the masks, the music, the beads and the king cake, few festive occasions can measure up to how much we let loose during Carnival season.

It's time to break out your beads and get in your last bites of king cake -- Mardi Gras time is here. Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. It's also called Shrove Tuesday, Carnival Tuesday or Pancake ...

(USA TODAY) -- Mardi Gras, French for Fat Tuesday, is synonymous with revelry before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Festivities begin on Jan. 6, known as the Feast of the Epiphany, Twelfth ...

Discovery's Jason Momoa-hosted Shark Week continued its cavalcade of carnage as the network devotes a week's worth of programming to all things toothy. Here's what we learned from Tuesday night's ...