{"id":168503,"date":"2026-02-17T19:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/168503\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:34:06","slug":"tamucc-students-celebrate-fat-tuesday-with-shrimp-boil-jazz-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/168503\/","title":{"rendered":"TAMUCC students celebrate Fat Tuesday with shrimp boil, jazz music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Texas A&amp;M University-Corpus Christi students celebrated Fat Tuesday in style with a campus-wide Mardi Gras celebration featuring traditional food and live entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Islander Dining hosted a shrimp boil as part of its Mardi Gras celebration at the Islander Dining Hall. Students enjoyed the festive atmosphere with traditional Mardi Gras food and a live jazz performance outside the dining hall.<\/p>\n<p>The event gave students a taste of New Orleans culture right on campus as they celebrated the final day before Lent begins.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Texas A&amp;M University-Corpus Christi students celebrated Fat Tuesday in style with a campus-wide Mardi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,67824,68306,28395,68307,7618],"class_list":{"0":"post-168503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-fat-tuesday","12":"tag-islander-dining","13":"tag-mardi-gras","14":"tag-shrimp-boil","15":"tag-texas-am-university-corpus-christi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}