Mardi Gras season will come to an end Tuesday, but until then, the festivities will rage on in New

Mardi Gras season will come to an end Tuesday, but until then, the festivities will rage on in New Orleans, Mobile, Ala., and elsewhere. The folks at wallethub.com have compiled a factual breakdown of the big bash. Here’s a sampling:

v Where it began: The first place in the United States to celebrate Mardi Gras was Mobile, Ala.

v Economic impact: In New Orleans, it contributes $1 billion to the economy.

v Visitors: 164,000 people flew to New Orleans for Mardi Gras in 2018, which was the most since 2010.

v Arrests: New Orleans police made 471 arrests near the parade route in 2018.

v Keeping it clean: A total of 850 workers remove trash from the parade route every day.

“American Idol” (8 p.m., ABC): Returning this season to discover a new crop of talented singers are judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, with Ryan Seacrest as host. Multimedia personality Bobby Bones will take on the role of in-house mentor.

“Leaving Neverland” part 1 (8 p.m., HBO): The controversial documentary in which two level abuse allegations against the late Michael Jackson begins.

“Divide and Conquer: THE ROGER AILES STORY” (9 P.M., A&E): Documentary on the late Warren native whose influence on the media landscape is still felt.

“Walking Dead” (9 p.m., AMC): One of the communities struggles to ease tensions that threaten to divide from within, while the true nature of another group comes into focus.

“victoria” on MASTERPIECE (9 p.m., Pbs): In the season finale, the world’s eyes are on the Great Exhibition and the royal couple.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Flea market will mark Mardi Gras

WARREN

The Warren Flea and Farmers Market, 428 Main St. SW, will have Mardi Gras celebrations from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 9, 12 and 16. The event will feature authentic Louisiana cuisine, family fun and prizes. Business owners and nonprofit groups are invited to set up and showcase their goods and services.

Professor to lecture on Bach and rock

YOUNGSTOWN

Sara Gulgas will deliver a lecture titled “Bach Transmogrified: The Cultural Accreditation of Baroque Rock” at 4 p.m. Friday in room 3136 of Bliss Hall, which is on the Youngstown State University campus. Admission is free.

In the 1969 “Bach Transmogrified” episode of the Young People’s Concerts series, Leonard Bernstein highlighted rock music’s stylistic allusions to Bach in order to prove the composer’s hipness to a youth audience while simultaneously making rock palatable to a mainstream adult audience.

Gulgas, who is an assistant professor of music at the University of Arizona, argues that while baroque rock’s incorporation of Bach was initially perceived as a stain on the genre’s harder image, it drew the attention of cultural figures who assigned aesthetic value to rock and in the case of Bernstein, explained it to the mainstream adult audience it initially resisted.

The lecture is sponsored by the Dana School of Music.