Macy's Thanksgiving Parade is one of the world's most renowned parade in the world. It has had dedicated fans since its debut in the 1920s. Here is a little Macy's Thanksgiving parade history lesson...
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The 31st annual Gay Pride Parade took place in Vancouver today, August 2, next to a sunny West End beach. The parade featured 160 colored floats and was the second largest gay pride parade in Canada. Local news...
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The Washington DC Cherry Blossom Festival Parade and 10 mile run take place today in downtown DC and hundreds of thousands of people turned up for the event.The parade started at 9:45 am on Constitution Avenue. The...
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The 2009 Chinese New Year Parade takes place in San Francisco today and the parade will feature over 100 floats and and 201 foot dragon. This is the parade that is known as the oldest and largest Chinese New Year's parade outside of Asia and is starts at 5:15pm and lasts till...
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It is refreshing to see how even malls can be about more than shopping. Our friends at PingMag show in Asagaya’s Tanabata Festival: The Papier-mache Float Parade how the Pearl Shopping Center unleashes its...
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You have to see it to believe it, during the Tachi Neputa Festival (August 4 to 8) floats measuring up to 70 feet tall (20 meters, a few stories high) and weighing more than seventeen tons are paraded through the streets of the city of Goshogawara in the Tsugaru region. The...
"Beware of the attack of the jellyfish swarm". Sounds like a cheesy tagline of a grade-B movie isn't it? Well rest assured that this isnt a movie review and before you squirm away from reading the rest, try...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorHey, welcome to the Club, none of us want to get old, but you know, if appearances are all that matters, Gays certainly don't have a monopoly on shallowness. They say...
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Talk about a Mobile Home and House boat ! Barge floats 2-story home from Wash. to Canada Here is a Story Board of the Move. Here is video of the move HUNTS POINT, Wash. - Rolling the waterfront house onto a...
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So why is today a holiday again? In Canada the last Monday on or before May 24 is set aside to commemorate Queen Victoria's birthday.However, most of us think of the day as an unofficial start to the summer....
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA much Celebrated event attended by Canadians looking for a good time of Great food , friendship, music and Celebration of an Ancient Tradition, much like any...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorVaisakhi, a 300 year old Sikh Harvest Festival, similar to our Thanksgiving is attended by well over 100,000 people, complete with parades and floats, though marred last...
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Every time I think I've got a handle on Japanese culture, something like this comes along and makes me start all over again. So now we're not only leaving animals hundreds of thousands of dollars when we die, but...
Are you ready for the Mardi Gras?"Oh yes, there will be Bawd.
Intimately, attached, no doubt, to Sen. David Vitter.
The Krewe du Vieux - a collection of excrutiatingly satirical subkrewes dedicated to the ribald...
I still remember stamping my feet in the cold, ignoring the folding chairs my parents had brought as we waited for Santa to come. Ah, to be five again. Also, 300,000 is a heck of a lot of people!"Red and green...
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