Your July 4th planner Jul 5, 2008
The big parade begins at 9 a.m. Catch a great view of the parade as it heads north on Lansdowne Avenue between Stewart and Essex avenues ... The baby parade will be held at the park following the big parade. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
Big Parade to feature big TV screen Jun 28, 2008
The gigantic screen, known as the ''DTV Trekker,'' will appear at the Big Parade along the Sioux City riverfront, from 5 to 8 p.m.. The DTV Trekker is the centerpiece of the National Association of Broadcasters' DTV Road Show. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Grandsons carry on zydeco tradition Jun 27, 2008
June 27, 2008 ONLINE EDITION. The Dog Hill Stompers will perform as part of the Mardi Gras Festivale Thursday. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Cardiac rehab no 'Trouble' at all for lead tenor Apr 6, 2008
MOVILLE, Iowa -- Seventy-six trombones lead the big parade in the Iowa classic "Music Man.". They almost led a big funeral procession July 4 -- for the man now starring as Professor Harold Hill in the musical at Woodbury Central school here. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Welcoming the year of the rat Feb 4, 2008
Along with Delfin Vigil's story about all the festivities - including the Flower Fair, the Miss Chinatown pageant and the big parade - Datebook staff members put their heads together to come up with great rat moments at the movies, musical rats, little-known rat facts and much more. Check it all out, beginning on Page 16. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bacchus or Brady? -- Parade competes with Super Bowl Feb 4, 2008
While New Orleans' hometown hero Eli Manning is leading Burress and the New York Giants against the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, hundreds of thousands of conflicted Carnival revelers will try to balance their desire to see the big game with watching the big parade. Bacchus -- one of the biggest and flashiest of New Orleans' Mardi Gras parades -- steps off at 5:15 p.m. CST. The Super Bowl kicks off at 5:17 p.m.. (WWLTV.com, LA)
Ben Affleck gives Dorchester T-shirt company its first close-up Nov 8, 2007
Schilling sported another College Hype T-shirt during the big parade last week. It said "We Did It again: Thank You Red Sox Nation.". (Boston Globe)
Spurs driven by chase for back-to-back titles Oct 2, 2007
This summer they had the big parade and citywide party, their Finals MVP had his storybook wedding, and players' families added little ones here and there. No, they didn't host "Saturday Night Live" last weekend, but in the Finals they swept the team of the player who did. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NBA)
Sneaks dominate as Telluride wraps Sep 4, 2007
Also screening was a new, restored print of King Vidors 1925 war film, The Big Parade, created from a long-lost negative recently found at the George Eastman House. Established as a mining town in the late 1800s with only two roads in, Tellurides festival shares something else with Park Citys big January event: long lines of disgruntled badge holders. (Variety)
Films ride Telluride buzz Sep 4, 2007
Among restorations of vintage films this year were King Vidor's "The Big Parade," Richard Lester's second Beatles feature "Help!," Korean helmer Shin Sang-ok's "Bound by Chastity Rules," Marco Ferreri's "Dillinger Is Dead" and, most popularly, the exceptional 1929 Robert and Kurt Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Billy Wilder, Eugen Schuefftan and Fred Zinnemann pic "People on Sunday," a portrait of a few young people out and about in Berlin that still looks new wave nearly 80 years later. In a related... (Variety)
What to see as the Show goes up Aug 31, 2007
King Vidor s The Big Parade. This anti-war epic romance is one of the truly great silent films, continued Meyer. (Telluride Daily Planet, CO)
Decatur Book Festival this weekend Aug 31, 2007
All about books - in Atlanta and everywhere else. The latest 5 entries, with the newest at the top. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Kaplan basks in parade glory Jun 30, 2007
Parade watchers wave for beads during the Big Parade at Chris Larsen Park Friday ... Seated on a black velvet throne perched high atop a brightly painted flatbed trailer, former "Welcome Back Kotter" star Gabe Kaplan clutched a yellow rubber chicken as he tossed shiny Mardi Gras beads into the air Friday night during the Big Parade ... Kaplan's participation in the Big Parade ties together his request for a parade. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Sites of murders, train heists help lure visitors Jun 12, 2007
They get a cowboy hat and you ride in the big parade the next day. You really can t take Jesse James real seriously in a town that has a smiley face water tower, she said. (Charles City Press, IO)
Iowa's dark side means tourism dollars Jun 10, 2007
"We don't give them a toy gun. They get a cowboy hat and you ride in the big parade the next day."You really can't take Jesse James real seriously in a town that has a smiley face water tower," she said.Ax murder still hauntsVillisca's relationship to its grisly history has been a rocky one. Darwin Linn has been on both sides of the conflict.As a young track runner for Villisca High School in the 1950s, Linn remembers taking flak from outsiders."At the Drake Relays there was a parade. We had our... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Portugal Events: Lisbon Festivals May 9, 2007
They also include the three big saints days in June, which are lumped together under the title of Festas dos Santos Populares and include the big parade of the Festa de Santo Ant;nio. Portugal Events: Lisbon Festivals Festas dos Santos Populares (Festivals of the Popular Saints). (Suite101.com)
What's On: Events Nov 18, 2006
Here Comes Santa The big parade in the city features over 25 floats, 20 bands and 1,500 costumed participants. Taking place Sun. (Toronto Star -- Life)
Starz Denver Film Festival Kicks Off 29th Season Nov 11, 2006
In the next 10 days the films will range from the 1925 silent film "The Big Parade" to "Brief Encounters of the Animated Kind.". The festival also includes "Shut Up , the highly anticipated documentary about the and what happened in their lives after Natalie Maines made her comment about being ashamed to be from the same state as President George Bush.This year's festival also includes a tribute to actor-director . Among his appearances are an interview at the Buell Theater.The festival closes... (CBS 4, CO)
Regal Rialto Sep 17, 2006
For instance, Rialto employees dressed as Red Cross nurses and doughboys for the 1925 World War I film, The Big Parade. For a 1928 Lon Chaney film, employees were circus clowns. (Montana Standard, MT)
Burlington gears for Centennial, longtime residents remember when Jul 6, 2006
Enjoy coffee or tea at Centennial Headquarters before the big parade at 11 a.m. A noon meal is available in the park followed by a 1 p.m., choir practice. In keeping with Burlington s traditional favorite pastime, an alumni basketball game is certain to draw a crowd at 2 p.m.. (Alva Review Courier, OK)
The Promise *** May 5, 2006
Celebrated early in his career for Yellow Earth and The Big Parade, followed later by Farewell, My Concubine, Chen has now joined the bandwagon to try his skilled hand at today's genre of choice the martial arts fantasy, of course, those lavish costume dramas that are steeped in folklore and play like souped-up fairytales bursting at the seams with flights of fury and acts of vengeance and the fickle doings of fate. This is no exception. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Tribeca fest welcomed Apr 25, 2006
It's "like a small town getting ready for the big parade," says Bero of the neighborhood's run-up to a festival that he calls uniquely community-minded. If so, the parade kicks off without Philip Williams, owner of a poster shop. (Newsday -- New York City)
