Mardi Gras live updates: See scenes from Fat Tuesday revelry across New Orleans

Everywhere else, it’s just Tuesday. 

But in New Orleans, Mardi Gras day is a sacred time when the city celebrates the climax (and unfortunate end) to the Carnival season. 

There’s no shortage of events of things to do on Fat Tuesday: beloved parades, costume parties, early-morning New Orleans traditions, general debauchery on Bourbon Street — the list goes on. 

We’ll update this story with photos and commentary throughout the day. Here are some early highlights.

Sainte Anne brings the weird and wacky 

The Marigny and Bywater was abuzz this morning with weird and wacky costumes as part of Sainte Anne, an iconic Mardi Gras day walking parade.

Black Hatchet marching club in Lower Ninth Ward Fat Tuesday kicks off with Northside Skull and Bones gang