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Your guide to the 2011 Rose Parade, with floats and entries in order of appearance

Tweet   Click into the interactive edition of Rose Magazine, below, for a complete viewing program guide to the 122nd Rose Parade, including the Grand Marshal, float entries, marching bands and equestrian teams, in order of appearance.

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The making of a Rose Magazine ‘float’

>>INSIDER So you’ve seen the finished product. Here’s how we made our Rose Magazine page-o-flowers happen: Here’s Stacey Wang working on the tiny rosebuds that comprised our logo. Here, Claudia Palma wrangles with the onion seeds we used for black … Continue reading

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A magazine built for you … out of flowers

>>PARADE So we had this crazy notion to reproduce a digitally-designed Rose Magazine page using flowers and organic material — just the way the real float builders do, in large-scale, every year. It seemed like a tangible way of translating … Continue reading

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Hope floats on the Rose Parade route

>>INSIDER Three Rose Parade float sponsors have traditionally invited either patients, survivors or their families to be guests of honor as float riders. Donate Life’s float riders are either organ transplant recipients or families of organ donors; the float also … Continue reading

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‘A Cut Above’: Tuskegee Airmen will take wing at 2010 Rose Parade

>>INSIDER By Claudia S. Palma The West Covina Rose Float Association held its fifth annual Evening of Wine and Roses fundraising event with a 1940s USO theme on Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Charisma Floats warehouse in Irwindale. The warehouse … Continue reading

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