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Mardi Gras

NPR

Published February 26, 2001 at 9:00 PM PST

More things happen in one day in New Orleans at Mardi Gras than happen all year in a typical Ohio town. Commentator Andrei Codrescu hires an actual person from Ohio to chronicle all the things that happen in the French Quarter.