Doo. Dah.

Trouble at the paradeublic art event.

"We were on the cusp of predictability, and that's something the parade was not about -- it was about being spontaneous and improvisational," said Tom Coston, president of Light Bringer Project, a nonprofit arts organization that produces the Doo Dah Parade.

"By moving it, we're peeling a few layers away so it becomes less of an entertainment vehicle and more of a public art event," Coston said.

"No more goddamn fun for you people, it's all art from now on," per the spontaneous, improvisational "president."

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Despite complaints from some that Old Town has lost some of its urban verve, Steve Mulheim of the Old Pasadena Management District said the 21 blocks that make up Old Town shouldn't be generalized as mainstream.

"The side streets are independent restaurants and shopkeepers, and a lot of very artistically driven people, so that component is most definitely still here," he said. "We're certainly a much more polished environment, but we still are very organic."

We have your "organic" right here. No, down here.