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Celebrating the Day of the Dead has become increasingly mainstream in the United States; we examine food and other cultural touchstones surrounding the holiday.Los Angeles, known for its diverse population, is a perfect setting for celebrating the Day of the Dead, with its intertwined European Roman Catholicism and Indigenous traditions.
And in a post-pandemic world with a never-ending news cycle of suffering, remembering the dead has never felt more vital., who started her sugar skull-making business tucked away in the corner of her family’s bakery, La Central Bakery in East L.A., she said something that resonated with me. After all, we are a city of diverse traditions that co-exist next to each other, an area familiar with paying homage to the past while embracing the future.
When she was doing a skull-decorating workshop at Grand Park last year, a 5-year-old boy wandered by and she asked if he wanted to decorate one. Soon, Martinez sought to design the sugar skull independently, experimenting with different iconography, such as Hello Kitty skulls and Frankenstein — images that Martinez herself, as a millennial, gravitated toward, and, as it would turn out, others would too. “It’s not Halloween,” he said. “Halloween is a festival where everything is horror, monsters, and costumes; this is imaginary. The Day of the Dead, for us Oaxacans, the celebration centers around the idea of love, affection, and respect.
Cruz’s altars are all-out elaborate affairs. Piled high with rows and rows of fresh produce — such as oranges, bananas, apples, and pumpkins — alongside a bottle of mezcal, sugar skulls, and religious statuettes, all swimming in a sea of orange marigoldsFood is central to the offerings. “Fruit, bread, ceramic objects, and candles are the common features that the earth offers us,” he said.
“The show's execution doesn't always match its ambitions, but the magnetism of Bomer and Bailey as the central duo is really powerful throughout and it carries it through.” – Kristen Baldwin,“Matt Bomer is very good…he's charming and handsome, but I think his performance really allows you to see the gaps where this mask that he's put on doesn't really fit.
Soto-Martinez told LAist the looming rent increase would be “catastrophic” for the city’s housing crisis. “That kind of balanced things out,” he said. “They should keep it, because there's a lot of low-income families here that can't afford for our rent to keep going up.”as part of a proposed 50-unit apartment building development. Parra worries about the future of El Apetito — and the possibility that his rent could soon go up 7% or more.The six-month delay proposal is still in early stages.
After the treatments are administered, traps in the area will be monitored, at least through next spring to make sure that all invasive fruit flies are gone. They would recite the Mourner’s Kaddish, a prayer in honor of the dead — for both Israelis who died in the attack and Palestinians killed in the airstrikes.
It’s felt here in L.A., where the Jewish community leans liberal and criticism of the hardline Israeli government, at least pre-war, was not uncommon.Israeli officials report an attack by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 killed at least 1,400 people. In addition, they say more than 220 people were taken hostage, with more wounded.
“I'm connected through friends and family to people that have been impacted by this, that have lost their lives and been taken hostage,” Kaplan told LAist. “I don't think that dropping 6,000 bombs on Gaza in the span of a week is an effective strategy for returning the hostages safely.”Kaplan, who grew up in Pico-Robertson’s Jewish enclave and is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, has found himself defending this stance with bystanders, friends, and relatives lately.
Brous still feels this way. But she also feels abandoned by non-Jewish progressives, who she says have been less vocal and supportive about the loss of Israeli lives. Brous made this analogy: He said he can’t speak for all Jewish progressives, but Simonds knows where he stands on the conflict.“I like to consider myself a progressive and a liberal,” he said. “I'm not going to abandon those terms just because I have been frustrated with individuals who claim to be progressive. All that being said, I'm not a pacifist. I do believe in just war.”As the war escalates, it’s become clear that there’s no lockstep, just as there are no easy answers.
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