"Bringing Chubby Back"

Featuring Justin Steak-N-Shake and the Chubbettes, a group concieved for the King Mango Strut 2006.

They just cried out to have a music video made. Watch it now on You Tube!

NEW links to 2007 King Mango Strut
Photographs and Videos!

Professional photographer: Art Seitz

Photographer Bill Masterson

Photographer Susan Root http://flickr.com/photos/dkeros/page6/

http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2008/01/10085.php

http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/nkohare/romania_2007/1199115900.html

http://www.chuckscorner.com/King%20Mango%20Strut.htm

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=2AYs27Jq4bMWby&notag=1

From YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtHa39ddy-o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAQEbHK8rbM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1RJ4KcRF2o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FvHs6a2XLc&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5XjKiqhnlA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrml1ws0uTw&feature=related

A note from your Mango Webmaster:
Send me links to your photos regarding the King Mango Strut and we will post them here!
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Press Release

The 26th King Mango Strut
Sunday, December 30th, 2pm in Downtown Coconut Grove

CAUTION: No one and nothing is safe from parody and satire at the King Mango Strut. Proceed at your own risk.

Starting at 2PM, get set for a mangolicious afternoon at the 26th King Mango Strut, where news and satire collide on the streets of Coconut Grove. The King Mango Strut is the most fun event Miami has to offer, full of irreverent, creative and wacky people and lots of opportunity to make fun of everything and anything. There is no better place for the King Mango Strut than Miami, Florida, the axis of the Axis of Weirdness. It provides more material that we could ever use. As creative as the MangoHeads are, even they couldn't come up with some of this stuff.

The King Mango Pre-Strut activities begin at the corner of Commodore Plaza and Main Highway with Judge Larry Seidlin, a.k.a. Buzz Fleischman, from WLRN’s ‘South Florida Arts Beat' Radio. Judge Larry will host and judge the Little Miss Mango Pageant (for kids 4-10) at 1:15pm. This highly competitive pageant will be a tough one and might even make Judge Larry cry. Everyone is expected to win.  The winners will ride the first float of the Strut.

Get ready for a mental climate change with this year’s theme is “An Inconvenient fruit” because so many things seem inconvenient these days like the truth and stripping to get through airport security and then stripping again in the restroom and finding out that knocking twice on the pipes gets you arrested.  If that and traffic is not enough to get you started, do what we do best in Miami – blame it on Fidel.  

We have a first with this year’s grand marshal, the youngest and two people. Mimi Davila and Laura Di Lorenzo, better known as the Chongalicious Girls, are this year’s grand marshals.  They are the Aventura girls, who took the YouTube and My Space world with their hit parody song, “Chongalicious,” a remake of the 2006 hit song “Fergalicious.”  So put on the Sharpie lip-liner, pull your hair back and c’mon baby, do that chonga.  They’ll be making the ice caps melt a little faster as they show off their hot Chonga looks and their sizzling Chonga moves. They will be accompanied by the Little Miss Chongas.
 
Expect to see the usual Strut suspects: The Hare Krishnas, the Marching Freds, The Will Thomas Band, RoadKill Band, the Progressive New Orleans's Funeral Band, the Mocko Jumbi, the Little Miss Mangoes and the former Miss Mangoes (Miss Judged, Miss Demeanor, Miss Aligned, Miss Appropriate, etc...)

All parade goers should arrive early this year to go through security checkpoint. Like the US Military, we have privatized security. MangoWater will be patrolling the parade route. Any funny looking or unruly paradegoers will be required to go waterboarding at Dick Cheney’s Surf Shop.

The strut route begins at the corner of Commodore Plaza and Main Highway.   It turns left onto Main Highway and then turns left onto Grand Avenue at Cocowalk and turn left again at Commodore Plaza.  If we are having too much fun we will go around again until we all fall down.  Right after the strut, there will be parties all around the Grove. The biggest party will be at CocoWalk where the 18 Wheelers and Ike & Val will play into the night.

All this entertainment is free (cheaper than a therapist) and open to the public. There is plenty of parking along or near the parade route at CocoWalk, Mayfair, Coconut Grove Playhouse, St. Stephens Episcopal Church, Coconut Grove Elementary School, the Municipal Garage at Oak Avenue and Mary Street, and he Sonesta Hotel’s public garage.  

If you don't want to drive (who can blame you,) take the Metrorail to the Coconut Grove Station.  There will be shuttle buses (the Coconut Grove Circulator) picking up eager parade goers every 15 minutes at the station and dropping them one block from the parade route.

The 26th Annual King Mango Strut

As the world warms up, the condo boom goes bust, and Hugo Chavez won’t shut up…
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The King Mango Strut is baaack!!! for the 26th time to bring much needed mental climate change on Sunday, December 30th at 2pm in downtown Coconut Grove. Parade route includes Commodore Plaza, Main Highway and Grand Avenue.

The King Mango Strut is the most fun event Miami has to offer, full of irreverent, creative and wacky people and lots of opportunity to make fun of everything and anything. There is no better place for strutting than in Miami. It provides more material that we could ever use. As creative as we are, even we couldn't come up with some of this stuff.

This year’s theme is "An Inconvenient Fruit,” because so many things seem inconvenient these days like the truth and stripping to get through airport security and then stripping again in the restroom and finding out that knocking twice on the pipes gets you arrested. If that and traffic is not enough to get you started, do what we do best in Miami – blame it on Fidel.

NOW ON YouTube! CLICK HERE to see their performance at this years Kick-Off Party!

Beginning at the Kick-Off Party on Tuesday, November 27th, the King Mango will go to four different locations on a 4-week mission: To explore strange new ideas. To seek out new mangoheads. To boldly go where no parade has gone before. (This is the part where you all go AaaAaaaAaaaaaAaaaaaa)

Tuesday, December 4th at 7pm
Breathe in a whole new appreciation for art
Art Nasal:
It's snot what you think
Join the MangoHeads as they celebrate art, poetry and music the King Mango Strut way on Tuesday, December 4th at Tobacco Road, 626 S Miami Avenue, Miami, at 7pm
Music, performances, door prizes, and much much more!!!
And remember what the King Mango says:
You can pick your nose but not your friend's nose.

Tuesday, December 11th at 7pm at Fritz & Franz Bierhaus at 60 Merrick Way in Coral Gables, the MangoHeads vill pump you up at the open mike night billed as, "So you think you can Strut?"

Tuesday, December 18th at 7pm at Tobacco Road, 626 S Miami Avenue, Miami, at 7pm King Mango Strut rallys the MangoHeads in the "You're Never Too Young, Too Old, Too Early or Too Late to Strut' Pep Rally. Last chance to get a group in the parade.

So come on out to the gathering of MangoHeads and get your strut on. Once you strut your stuff, you never go back to being a spectator. If you have a group and a funny plan - great! If you want to participate but don't know what to do, don't worry, the wacky Mangoheads will give you something nutty to do.

For more information call the Mango Hotline at 305-401-1171