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FOOD & DRINK: Eatonville (2121 14th Street NW) serves up the best of New Orleans cuisine, including gator gumbo, sweet corn fritters, crab cake, Cajun chicken jambalaya, and King Cake tonight for their Mardi Gras Krewe Food and Folklore dinner. 6:30 p.m. $57.60.

PARADE: Head to Arlington tonight for floats, beads, and live bands at the annual Clarendon-Courthouse Mardi Gras Parade, which will be traveling down Wilson Boulevard from North Barton Street to North Irving Street beginning at 8:00 p.m. Free.

PARTY: Make your way to Rumors (1900 #4 M Street NW) for the 11th annual Bourbon Street Bash tonight, featuring drink specials, live music from Lethal Peanut, a Cajun hot wing eating contest, and more. 4:00 p.m.-close.

TALK: Learn how Quantum Mechanics “reveals that our reality is weirder than all get out” at a DC Science Cafe talk featuring Steve Rolston, Univeristy of Maryland physicist and co-director of the Joint Quantum Institute, at Busboys and Poets (5th and K Streets NW). 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.