Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun, said Rudyard Kipling. Mad dog owners and St. Louisans swill beer in the noonday sun. It w...

It seems like each group of people at the pet parade was weirder than the last. So here's this couple walking down the street with some ...

That's what they used to call them back in the 50s, wasn't it? I guarantee you that pug nosed pooch in the wagon is no poodle. What ...

That idea would have met the spirit of the day at the pre-Mardi Gras pet parade on Sunday. However, that wasn't what was actually going ...

I've noted here several times that St. Louis, or at least a lot of it, likes an excuse to drink in public. This band, setting up before ...

St. Louis has developed something of a Mardi Gras industry. There is so much marketing and hype, so many different events, that it has the f...

I have no new material so we have one last day from the dog parade. Silly people embarrassing their pets. The main Mardi Gras parade ...

St. Louis loves an excuse to drink in public. People don't do it without a reason but it doesn't take much. Anything related to...

A photo taken on the sidelines as I was leaving the pet parade. They both look melancholy, almost as if they were grieving, sitting the...

Odd. A dog named Hamlet. If a dog actually played Hamlet it would need an awfully good diction coach. But then think of an all-dog prod...

There is a big to-do about Mardi Gras here. Not even close to the town at the end of the Mississippi but bigger than almost anywhere el...