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Enter the Dragon: Chinatown launches lunar festival

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With lettuce-chomping lions, clapping cymbals, a controlled detonation of firecrackers in Sara Roosevelt Park and noisemaking, confetti-spewing poppers galore, Chinatown was a riot of sights and sounds Monday for the celebration of the Lunar New Year. This is the Year of the Dragon.