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New Orleans bids another joyous ‘Fat Tuesday’ farewell to Carnival season

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By KEVIN McGILL
Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is bidding a typically joyous farewell to Carnival season with Mardi Gras parades and street parties. Tuesday brings a massive outdoor costume festival to the bars and restaurants in the French Quarter. Revelers in capes, wigs, spandex and feathers danced in front of St. Louis Cathedral at Jackson Square while Latin music blared. Not far away, tourists and locals roamed Bourbon and Royal streets with costumes that varied from the scanty and suggestive to the fanciful. Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the final day of festivities before Ash Wednesday and the solemnity of Lent.

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