Has this been a particularly rude Mardi Gras?
 

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/imag...1.52.34_PM.png "Mardi Gras is so rude this year," a friend told me a few days ago.

Really?

I hadn't thought much about it except for the usual tent cities that go up in Mid-City on the neutral grounds in the days before Endymion rolls. On Friday morning, though, walking down Canal Street, it struck me that no other city in America would let people set up living rooms on the streetcar tracks 30 hours before a parade was set to roll:

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