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Merriment Clockwise, from left: A crowd fills the Civic Center for Mardi Gras; Pete Hartje, half of the Alias Hart and Jones band plucks at his bass; Mac Owens displays some cold cash on a hot night; from left, Michelle Sowers and Delana Littleton celebrate after Littleton won a plane trip anywhere in the continental U.S.; and folks browse the prizes that were to be awarded in drawings.