Photo by mosley.brian

The Mount Vernon Triangle Blog passes on some deets on the Chinese Lunar New Year parade. The parade will take place in Chinatown from 2 to 5 p.m. tomorrow, with an attempt to set off a five-story firecracker (!) at 3:45 p.m. Washington’s Chinese community officially celebrate the New Year last weekend, but tomorrow is the party observed for the Year of the Tiger — a truly badass animal year. Year of the Snow Leopard doesn’t even come close. The year would need to dip into the exotic to beat Year of the Tiger — maybe Year of the Sharktopus or Year of the Obscenely Cuuute Elephant Shrew.

While the Year of the Tiger means good tidings for the bold, the Year of the Tiger parade means bad traffic for the driver. It will be difficult to drive around China town for much of the afternoon tomorrow — check the street closures for specific details.