I’m pretty sure that Darth Vader never visited Ireland and that Princess Leia never had a sip of Guinness. So what’s this doing in the St....

  One of the balloons in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. This one puzzled me. There was no sign or banner identifying it, and nothing about th...

  As I’ve noted here in the past, St. Louis likes a chance to drink in public. Budweiser, the local famous brew, markets heavily on St. Patr...

  Most of us have seen the big helium-filled balloons at parades or other events but I’ve never seen how they get their lift. I came up from...

  There is a delicious silliness about someone riding a Harley tricycle with a Santa hat and beard in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. It’s all...

St. Patrick's Day in St. Louis. The parade on the Saturday before the date is a really big deal. The weather yesterday was simply perfec...

I know the Vikings raided much of the east coast of Britain but I didn't know they made it around the corner to Ireland. (The English to...

An instance of the old meme about the luck of the Irish, I suppose. Ireland has had stretches of time when it had extraordinarily bad luck (...

St. Louis has two St. Patrick's Day parades. We've seen some images from what you might say is the official one downtown, always on ...

It's a tradition around here at big events to hang a big American flag from the ends of the fire department's longest cranes. There ...

I've said many times that St. Louis loves an excuse to drink in public. There were a number of pop-up bars along the St. Patrick's...

Both the crowd and the number of participants in this year's St. Patrick's Day parade was smaller than normal, perhaps because it wa...

The quintessential Canadian coffee shop chain, Tim Horton's, is expanding all over the United States and i t is popping up in The...

Well, not exactly. Another group that always shows up at the St. Pat's parade is this fan club for old, small-engine farm tractors....

Yesterday's photo was of the equipment belonging to a member of the Arcola Precision Lawnmower Drill Team. It's a small farm tow...

Happy St. Patrick's Day ! Another photo from last weekend's parade.  There is a reason his name is O'Bama. Need proof? Ch...

No American parade is complete without marching ban ds. Sometimes they strut their stuff. Sometimes they rest and prepare. The se org...

There are plenty of rowdy people at the St. Patrick ' s Day parade. The SLPD makes sure it doesn't get out of han d. Pointles...

Big turnout for the parade, even on a gloomy day: at the front, forming up at the rear and on the sidelines.                      ...

I shoot it almost every year. The St. Patrick's Day parade is a big deal here, one of the la rgest in the count ry (although n...