New Orleans has Mardi Gras. Miami has the King Mango Strut. While incomporable in size and scale, this comical and locally revered parade returns on January 7th, 2024 to celebrate 40 years of "putting the NUT in Coconut grove" through satirical floats and eyebrow-raising subject matter.
This year's thematic umbrella is I Can’t Get No DeSantisfaction, to the chagrin of book ban proponents everywhere. Onlookers are encouraged to get into it by dressing the part, embracing the parade's ethos to “celebrate and skewer what’s weird and wonderful about Miami and the year that was.” And if you actually want to be in the parade, that's a possibility, too. Amateur comedians and performers can apply here.
