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Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez, a Salt Lake City attorney who’s been living in Mexico with his wife Lorena since the summer of 2007, offers an excellent observation about tomorrow’s presidential election from the vantage point of our southern neighbor.
Yesterday, November 2, Mexicans celebrated the Day of the Dead with sweet bread, sugar skulls and offerings […]

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“In this Day of the Dead celebration, people mock death and gender and whatever else
needs a little push.” — La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead

A remarkably resilient 1988 hour-long documentary of the Days of the Dead celebrations ranging from small Mexican village Indian temples to San Francisco’s Mission District will be screened in a […]

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A documentary focusing on two children traveling through the Sonora Desert to cross the border between the United States and Mexico in order to reunite with their mothers in the Midwest will be screened in a free, public program Monday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. in the City Library Auditorium. Following the screening — which […]