Authorities in Seattle are searching for the dumbass that crashed a two-pound drone above the city’s Pride parade on Sunday, knocking a 25-year-old woman out cold, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports.
Yesterday, LA Weekly's Patrick Range McDonald created a bit of an e-gay stir with an essay whose headline wondered, "Is L.A. Gay Pride an Outdated, Adolescent Mess?" Los Angeles' Gay Pride weekend kicks off today, hence the question. The answer, according to McDonald? "An unqualified yes."
As we all know, Frosty the Snowman was a jolly happy soul. But was he too jolly? Police in Chesterton, Md. believe so, and yesterday arrested Frosty at the annual Christmas parade for disorderly conduct.
The Sacred Heart School in Chiang Mai, Thailand recently had a "sports day," in which students divided up into teams named after different colors. Just like schools in the U.S.! Except that one of the teams at Sacred Heart also dressed up like Nazis.
Consternation!! Alarm!! Here is a shocking video of NYPD officers at the West Indian Day Parade, in which the cops appear to be enjoying themselves and interacting positively with the community, instead of preventing shootings that were happening blocks away, possibly at a different time altogether!
On Sunday, people in northern Spain performed El Salto del Colacho, or "the Devil's Jump," a tradition in which men dress as yellow "colachos" and jump over local babies in the street.
An incendiary device found along the route of a Martin Luther King Day parade in Spokane, Wash., was "likely capable of inflicting multiple casualties," the FBI said today.
[A man on stilts teases a group of children during El Museo del Barrio's 34th annual Three Kings Day parade in New York today. Image via AP]
Now that OK Go's music videos have become synonymous with huge, viral hits; the pressure heightens with each new offering. This one's a documentary of the band's 8.5-mile parade through Los Angeles, spelling their name in the city's blocks.
One highlight of last Saturday's Christmas parade in Richmond, VA—besides random people on Segways—was supposed to be a giant Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer balloon. Unfortunately, a stop light got in Rudolph's way, and... watch the tragedy unfold, inside.
Have you seen any instances of the word "Christmas" being replaced by the considerably more ethnic "Holiday"? Sen. Jim Inhofe sure has. And now that his hometown "Christmas" parade is a "Holiday" parade, he'll keep his horse stabled.
[A costumed woman marches in Brooklyn's West Indian Day Parade today. Photo via AP.]
[Participants in the 2010 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island yesterday. Each year, people dress up in crazy costumes and march as an homage to the old Coney Island Mardi Gras.] (Pic via Getty)
[Salsa singer Marc Anthony, King of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, attends to his subjects with his consort, Duchess Jenny of Block, on Fifth Avenue in New York City on Sunday. Affleck never did anything this fun. Pic via AP.]
Hopefully another step in getting Constance McMillen, lesbian prom crusader, out of her repressive Mississippi town: She's been named a grand marshal for this year's New York Gay Pride Parade! Maybe she can look at apartments while she's here. [NYDN]
Whenever this little boy lifts his arms above his head, a parade crowd goes wild. It'll be a sad day for him when he realizes the world doesn't actually cater to his whims.
[Two participants take a rest before marching in the West Indian-American Day Parade yesterday in Brooklyn. Image via Getty]
A recent transplant to the city and eager to become a "real New Yorker," Dashiell is asking other New Yorkers to help him discover all the classic New York City locations.
It's Advertising Week in New York this week — which strikes us as a touch redundant — and it kicked off this morning with a "Procession of the Great Icons," in which all your favorite legendary advertising characters marched from Times Square to, natch, Madison Avenue. Adweek's AdFreak was there, and the 'Freaks…
