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Fat weekend

Beads, barkers, bicycles roll with the good times in LR, NLR Mardi Gras parades

Bicycle polo enthusiast Brian Broussard, “Mr. Zebra,” at SoMa’s Mardi Gras parade along Main Street in Little Rock
Bicycle polo enthusiast Brian Broussard, “Mr. Zebra,” at SoMa’s Mardi Gras parade along Main Street in Little Rock

— There were hirsute men in harlequin togs, kinchins hitchin’ rides on horses, classy cyclists wearing tweed and a bizarro warrior class wielding polo mallets, masked men and women throwing beads and man’s best friends lassoed to leashes but leading the march. Such was the scene on back-to-back days last weekend, on Main streets north and south of the river, of Mardi Gras parades in the Capital City and “Dogtown.”

High Profile, Pages 49 on 02/17/2013

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