Unexpected party

Since we live downtown, and specifically in the Gayborhood, we often leave our apartment to discover unexpected parties - an arts festival or gay pride parade or something else fun happening on our street. Today, though, we went outside after dinner to go to the convenience store, and encountered this:

That's several hundred people, all dressed in white, having a formal dinner along the entire street from here to City Hall. There was also live music and mummers dressed in white (although we didn't get a good picture of them).

We googled it when we got home, apparently it's called Diner en Blanc and is sort of a flashmob/public art thing. It's pretty cool looking, but - as our friend who was there too said - it also kind of looks like "a summer formal for the klan."