Day of the dead News

PLACITAS, NM, July 04, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- New Mexico's largest "Day of the Dead" Art event is back, bigger than before, and will take place July 18-19, 2009 at the Santa Ana Star Casino Banquet rooms.

Elgin Public Museum: "A Celebration of Souls: Day of the Dead in Southern Mexico." On Saturday, Professor Christine Starzynski of Judson University presents "Dia de los Muertos." The slide show and lecture illustrates Day of the Dead as seen by someone who has experienced it.

Title: Associate professor of social work at Siena College. Accoutrements: Sofka is a thanatologist, someone who studies death and dying and how people deal with death.

Every day for the past 13 years I have picked up a copy of The Salt Lake Tribune for entertainment, news and opinion.

Their eats: When you stroll into Estrella Negra , the 3-month-old Nuevo Latino restaurant on the border of Bucktown and Logan Square, you may be greeted by an artist painting canvases in the front window.

One item on my "Bucket List" includes visiting Mexico's "Day of the Dead," an annual event where they cheerfully celebrate their deceased loved ones.

Every day is Day of the Dead at Bone Garden Cantina - - a restaurant stuffed full of skeleton murals, skeleton sculptures, skeletons drinking and dancing, skeletons riding motorcycles and hanging from platforms ...

Latino and Latina art and culture was on display for the whole community to see Saturday at the St.

Moxie Sozo, a Boulder, Colorado-based design and advertising company, created this rad packaging for Fruta del Diablo salsa.

Dia de los muertos is observed throughout Mexico on November 1st. My wife and I were fascinated at the way in which Mexicans choose to celebrate this day, which is really a celebration of life.

Downtown Chandler became a little more artsy Friday thanks to a group that moved there after more than three decades in Mesa.

Marka27a s Minigod series has seen continued success from the initial MG1 Brazil through the MG2 Mexico.

Chicago Police Officer Dannie Marchan fatally shot his children Alizay and Anthony on September 15, 2008 in his double murder suicide.

Papel Picado, or perforated paper, is a form of traditional Mexican artwork celebrating the Day of the Dead.

Day of the Dead was about a month and a half ago, but I've just discovered a neat post by BibliOdyssey about papel picado papercuts in the theme of the festival: "In Mexico, papel picado , refers to the ...

UU churches celebrate variety of holidays Newburyport, Mass.'s First Religious Society, UU, keeps an 83-year-old Christmas tradition alive with its annual Candlelight Service.

As the Summit County Coroner I wish to thank the following people who helped with the Dia De Los Muertos celebration.

Dia de los Muertos can create a more lighthearted atmosphere than the usual mournful ceremonies for those who've passed away.

If you go Santa Paula High School's Mexican-American Heritage exhibit will be displayed through Feb.

I met a knot of Goths at night, posing through Smithfield Market on the Day of the Dead, youngsters whose artifice and formality was too much for this world: all dressed up and nowhere grave enough to go.