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Mardi Gras celebrations are looking very different this year.
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Fun facts about Mardi Gras
Here are 10 facts about Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, that you might not know.Jon Cherry/Getty Images
With bars closed, parades cancelled and crowds restricted, New Orleans annual citywide celebrations for Mardi Gras are looking very different this year amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Mardi Gras, French for Fat Tuesday, always falls on the day before Ash Wednesday, which is the start of the six-week-long season of Lent leading up to Easter. While Lent a time of reflection is typically observed by fasting from both food and festivities, Mardi Gras is usually marked by feasting and lavish celebration, thus its name. Mardi Gras revelries take place around the world each year, with some of the largest and perhaps most well-known in predominately Catholic New Orleans.
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“A Stage for Viewing” pavilion and sculpture, photographed in December 2020, is a gathering place at The Fly.
Who even calls the stretch of greenspace overlooking the Mississippi River “Audubon Riverview Park”? But that is its official name. The current pavilion in the park everyone refers to as “The Fly” has a history dating back more than 25 years.
That structure, officially named “A Stage for Viewing,” was damaged in October’s Hurricane Zeta in October, and the process of replacing its shredded roof is still in play.
It’s this structure’s predecessor that gave the stretch of land by the river its name. Few today can remember the original building that people thought resembled a butterfly. So the park gained the nickname “The Butterfly,” which was then shortened to “The Fly.” The building, which housed concessions and restrooms, was actually supposed to resemble gull wings.