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Fat Tuesday features

I had a few hours to kill early in my shift on Tuesday before a high school basketball game so I set out to shoot a few features. Tuesday was Fat Tuesday, but the only Mardi Gras-related feature I found was a couple local musicians performing some New Orleans-style jazz at Chicory Cafe, a French Quarter-style coffee shop in downtown South Bend. After I returned to the newsroom, a reporter tipped me off that he spotted a barbershop mural going up out on the west side of town.

Isaro Simental adds green to the word "side" as he and Sammy Aguire, background, paint a mural on the side of the Little Mexico West Side Barbershop on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, along Western Avenue in South Bend. Simental, who is also a barber at the shop, and Aguire had been working on the mural for about two hours by 3:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, but had already completed a barber's pole that spanned the height of the building's east side. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
Isaro Simental adds green to the word "side" as he and Sammy Aguire, background, paint a mural on the side of the Little Mexico West Side Barbershop on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, along Western Avenue in South Bend. Simental, who is also a barber at the shop, and Aguire had been working on the mural for about two hours by 3:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, but had already completed a barber's pole that spanned the height of the building's east side. (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
As patrons slip their coffee, Danny Barber plays a few jazz notes on the trumpet as he looks down at his playing partner, Jim Pickley, left, on piano on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at Chicory Cafe, a French Quarter-style coffee shop, in downtown South Bend. The two said they usually only perform at the cafe for Mardi Gras, and this year's performance was the third such occasion. "It's fun to do a duo," Barber said of the performance. "You just come in and play." (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)
As patrons slip their coffee, Danny Barber plays a few jazz notes on the trumpet as he looks down at his playing partner, Jim Pickley, left, on piano on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at Chicory Cafe, a French Quarter-style coffee shop, in downtown South Bend. The two said they usually only perform at the cafe for Mardi Gras, and this year's performance was the third such occasion. "It's fun to do a duo," Barber said of the performance. "You just come in and play." (James Brosher/South Bend Tribune)

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