Parading Through The Summer

2011's Carnivals And Bacchanals

- Members of a dance group take part in the 'Karneval der Kulturen' (carnival of cultures) street parade through Berlin's Kreuzberg district on June12, 2011. The festival is organized yearly to celebrate the German capital's ethnic and cultural diversity.

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NEW YORK (Associated Press) -- Spectators have been dancing and singing behind police barricades to music pounding from loudspeakers aboard floats in New York City's West Indian Day Parade. The annual Labor Day parade celebrates Caribbean culture. It's among the city's largest and most colorful, featuring dancers wearing enormous feathered costumes. Spectators waved the flags of their islands as the parade rumbled through Brooklyn on Monday. They enjoyed delicacies including jerk and curry chicken. Trinidad native Arnold Caballero calls the parade "fabulous!"