Mardi Gras

The bars might be full of fun people wearing purple, green, and gold tonight, but if you'd rather take the Mardi Gras vibe to the house instead, we've got three easy drink recipes that will produce the same buzz and save some money too.

Today's list of things to celebrate...or completely ignore because they are silly include 'Fat Tuesday', Random Act Of Kindness Day', and 'Human Spirit Day'...whatever that means.

The 2015 Empty Bowls Dinner Fundraiser is an international project to fight hunger and it's coming to Twin Falls this month! Oh and the theme this year is Mardi Gras!

Every watering hole has one: the oddball character who’s strange.

The king cake is a traditional Mardi Gras food. It is usually a ring-shaped pastry, sometimes filled with cheese or jelly and sprinkled with the colors of Mardi Gras. It began as an Epiphany treat, celebrating the arrival of the Three Wise Men to the stable where Jesus was born. Oh, and it’s delicious.

After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Atlantic Coast in 2005, New Orleans, and the region as a whole, gained more prominence in the national and international news, and rightly so.