Day of the dead News Archives

There's an exciting new addition to the colorful culture of San Francisco's Mission District: Autumn Express.

Clive Kindergartners at Clive Elementary love math time everyday. With the adoption of the new math curriculum, Everyday Mathematics, math has quickly become a time students and teachers look forward to.

Artist Raul Servin in his home studio in San Antonio. SAN ANTONIO a ' There was a time when Raul Servin painted bluebonnets and Texas Hill Country landscapes.

There will be a "murder" in the Ss. John and Paul cafeteria on Friday and Saturday.

Sacred Heart Church in Myrtletown displays a community altar bringing together the holidays of Dia de los Muertos and All Souls Day.

During their lifetimes, the great Mexican printmakers Manuel Manilla and JG Posada made hundreds of Caleveras showing skeletons working, drinking, dancing and fighting, the finest of which have been published as a collection of postcards by Redstone Press." See some of the book's picture here Order Calaveras: Mexican Prints for the Day of the Dead ...

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More than 500 years ago, when the Spanish Conquistadores arrived in Mexico, they were surprised to see the natives mocking death.

I thought it was really lame how there were more white people with cameras than actual participants at this year's Dia de los Muertos celebration, but this video kinda makes up for it .

Colorful and vibrant works of art, created by Tyler Independent School District middle school students are featured in a special exhibition at the Tyler Museum of Art that will continue through Sunday.

This past weekend the Harbourfront Centre hosted a festival in celebration of the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos or the "Day of the Dead." The Day of the Dead is anything but depressing.

For the first time, St. Philip the Apostle Church in Pasadena erected an altar in observance of the Latino holiday Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

Students learned about the Day of the Dead and also honored their favorite saints at an event Tuesday at Sacred Heart School's gymnasium in West Reading.

Mexico came to a standstill to observe the Day of the Dead on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 in connection with All Saints' Day.

For the 6th annual Dia de los Muertos at the Arlington Arts Center, local artist David Amoroso created interactive altars and paintings to honor and remember deceased loved ones.

Angel Ruiz, the former custodian at the Pickleweed Park Community Center, enjoyed drinking coffee and coaching kid's soccer, so an altar honoring him at Saturday's Day of the Dead celebration at the center included a bright yellow soccer uniform and a cup filled with coffee beans.

Wearing white skeleton masks and marigolds in their hair, festival goers descended on Sherman Way for the ninth annual Dia de los Muertos celebration on Sunday.

A celebration at Navy Pier Sunday honored the dearly departed. Dancers performed Sunday afternoon at the 'Dia de Los Muertos,' or 'Day of the Dead,' event.

The cathedral was wired with fireworks and a song about the beauty of this central Mexico city was blaring from the loudspeakers.

Join the traditional Mexican celebration of life and death at the Phinney Neighborhood Association's Dia de los Muertos procession and festival tomorrow, Friday, Nov.

DAY OF THE DEAD: The Day of the Dead celebration took place at Rollins on Oct. 28, 2009.

The jungles of the Mayan Riviera on the Caribbean coast are full of authentic ruins, such as Coba, and living Mayan villages.

Day of the Dead. It sure sounds like a bummer. But "Day of the Dead" or "Dia de los Muertos", is a traditional holiday celebrated in Central America and Mexico to commemorate family members, and loved ones, who have passed away.

As part of their Spanish class, 8th graders at St. Mary School in Menomonee Falls got a "taste" of the Mexican traditions of "The Day of the Dead." They are holding a "molinillo" which is used to mix and froth Mexican hot chocolate; a "pan de los muertos" , "calaveras" , and the special chocolate with just a touch of cinnamon that is used to make ...

The white face-paint did not conceal the anguish in Chris DeMonterey's face, as he stood somberly next to an altar that he built in honor of his dead friend.

Halloween may be over, but another spooky holiday is being celebrated in downtown Tulsa.

Large fans of feathers embedded in an Aztec headdress took a life of their own as Cuahucoatl Garces moved and danced to the beat of drumming intended to invite the spirits of ancestors to visit Salem.

DA a de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a special MA©xican holiday that El Dorado Restaurant will celebrate at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov.

Title: DAY OF THE DEAD OFFERS ALTERNATIVE TO HALLOWEEN Each year on Oct. 31, many Americans re-designate their homes, workplaces and learning environments as spooky places, in the spirit of Halloween.

JoyfulGypsy told me, 'Attending the Day of the Dead festivities brought back many bittersweet memories of growing up in Mexico for me.

The Nevada State Museum celebrates "El Dia de Los Muertos" or Day of the Dead from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday in what museum officials say is a multicultural celebration of life through death.

The end of October holds more than one noteworthy day of significance. Saturday at midnight marks the beginning of the Mexican holiday El Dia de los Muertos, and the local festivities start Friday.

Yes, it was a party party weekend, but the festivities aren't over yet. Tambien , at 250 Steele Street, will host an official Dia de Los Muertos celebration tonight from 7 to 10 p.m. complete with a silent auction of sugar skulls hand-painted by tattoo artists from around the country, with the proceeds going to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

Colchester and St. Michael's College are far from home for Marta Umanzor. She says, "I feel wonderful because I decorated the altar for people I really care about!" The El Salvador native is a longtime Spanish professor at St.

While candy is the treat of choice for many American children this time of year, it's a sweet bread that delights the palates of Mexican-American children and adults who observe Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

This is the first year that Kansas City has hosted the national convention for the Mexican Restaurant Association , a three-year-old non-profit organization whose mission is "to integrate all Mexican restaurants while promoting the vast diversity of Mexican gastronomy and culture." Kicking off the three-day conference was an opening night party ...

Latinos in the big bend joined others across the nation in celebrating the Day of the Dead.

Fog wrapped around buildings as they gathered -- skeletons, ghosts, an angel, a king with a sumptuous headdress straight from the Brazilian carnival, Marie Antoinette's parrot in epoch laces and a curly white wig, and other creatures.

As holidays go, El Dia de los Muertos - known in English as "The Day of the Dead" - is far from bleak.

MENASHA - The thousands of people who entered the high school fieldhouse Monday night were greeted by colorfully clothed life-size, plastic skeletons depicting everyday scenes.

When Maria Elia Gonzalez was younger, her mother used to take her and her siblings to the graveyard every year in honor of Day of the Dead.

Title: A COSTUMED PROCESSION GIVES DAY OF THE DEAD A PORTLAND TWIST Fog wrapped around buildings as they gathered -- skeletons, ghosts, an angel, a king with a sumptuous headdress straight from the Brazilian carnival, Marie Antoinette's parrot in epoch laces and a curly white wig, and other creatures.

Cemeteries in Mexico are crowded with families marking the Day of the Dead holiday.

The families of women whose remains were found in February in a desert subdivision plot on Albuquerque's west side say they are worried people will forget the case.

I swear I didn't halucinate this. I dropped by Oak Hill Farm to see what is available.

Dia de los Muertos celebrates life. Many refer to it as "The Day of the Dead" but Dia de los Muertos has nothing to do with Halloween.

Sunday's Dia De Los Muertos Festival drew tens of thousands of people to explore its numerous altars to the dead and live music performances, all in proud celebration of life, death and cultural heritage.

The Day of the Dead, El Dia de los Muertos, is a colorful, complex and ancient tradition practiced in Mexico and Latin America, with analogues occurring other countries as disparate as Brazil, Spain and New Zealand.

The Day of the Dead is a holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd by Mexicans and Latin Americans living in America and Canada to honor loved ones that have passed on.

Unlike Halloween, the Mexican religious holiday of Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is grounded in love for deceased family members.

Standing outside the Ben Delatour Room at the Poudre River Public Library District's Main Library on Saturday, Tony Kalmbach read from a pamphlet to his mother and sister.

Are you a cultural festival junkie? Treasures abound in Mexico and in your nearby Mexican neighborhood.