Tuesday, February 16, 2021

This Year, Mardi Gras Is "No Party" Gras

This year, New Orleans residents and their "guests" from out of town won't have a normal celebration of today's Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday). So "Laissez les bon temps rouler".... next year perhaps?

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Pieces of Mardi Gras floats sit unused at the Kern Studios, with parades and large gatherings cancelled in New Orleans this year due to the pandemic.


Elvin King III stands in the street outside his home in New Orleans, his high school band not marching in the cancelled Mardi Gras parade.

(photos by Gerald Herbert, AP)