Far from the macabre Halloween-adjacent holiday many outsiders imagine, Day of the Dead represents one of humanity's most beautiful approaches to mortality: transforming loss into celebration, grief ...

Halloween and Day of the Dead 2025 will fall on standard time weekend for an extra hour of sleep or celebrating Dia De Los Muertos for pets, babies and all that have passed. While Halloween is not ...

MEXICO CITY — Lucia Ortíz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico. Here, ...

Mr. Lomnitz is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University and the author of “Death and the Idea of Mexico." Joyful. Ironic. Soulful. Intimate. These are some of the words that have ...

Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is a vibrant Mexican celebration that honors and remembers departed loved ones. This centuries-old tradition combines indigenous beliefs with Catholic ...

Dancers at the Day of the Dead parade.. Photo by Joseph Johnston. They based these on family history, their love of Mexican artists like Jose Guadalupe Posada, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and a ...

Bright orange marigolds, dancing skeletons, community ofrenda and sweet pan de muerto are part of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festivities in communities throughout San Diego County. The ...

Every November 1 and 2, thousands of Mexican families set up altars to honor the memory of their loved ones. In recent years, this tradition has also found a special place to remember those who ...

Vendors and ofrendas at Dia de Muertos in City Heights. (Photo by Adrian Childress/Times of San Diego) For many locals, this time of year means edging closer to Halloween. But for others, the end of ...

This weekend, Mexican American families across the U.S. will gather to honor their ancestors with altars, marigolds and sugar skulls on Dia de los Muertos — the Day of the Dead. In recent years, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock Far from the macabre Halloween-adjacent holiday many outsiders imagine, Day of the Dead represents one ...