It’s Fat Tuesday, the culmination of Mardi Gras. Relive the revelry so far — the costumes, the streets filled with beads, the carousing and parading — with Xpress’ photos and videos.
Click here to see a photo gallery of all the fun at Sunday’s Mardi Gras parade. And click on the window below for videos.
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Lame! Except when the guy drops the f-bomb at 1:13 and the little girl starts laughing.
Feel it?
Blain Kern needs to move from Algiers Point to Asheville. We need some floats to really get the party started.
Kern is moving Mardi Gras World to the old River City on the wrong side of the river!!! We should start a petition to bring him here.
More pictures from the flickr community
http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=Mardi+Gras+Asheville&s=int&d=taken-20090218-&ss=2&ct=0