Artist honors Mexican roots with handmade papel picado
Using a chisel and hammer, a Houston artist is reviving the tradition of papel picado, crafting designs that tell stories of ...
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Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebrations blend Indigenous customs and European thinking in surprising ways
Marigolds, skull-painted faces and swishing skirts will fill the downtown ... This vibrant scene reflects the blending of Indigenous, European and specifically Mexican customs that define Day of the ...
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Saving The `Purely American’ Monterey Furniture of Oregon Caves
It has been said that “a room full of Monterey furniture always seems to have a sense of humor about it.” The pieces in this ...
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Gillian’s Wonderland Pier is already being painted over three days after closing for good
By midday, the side of the iconic nearly century-old amusement park read “onderland” with the W painted over. The painted red gate to the castle-like structure had been painted over white, as had part ...
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Lowriding is more than just cars. It’s about family and culture for Mexican Americans
Attendees of a lowrider exhibition, wearing Zoot suits of the Mexican American subculture known as Pachucos ... cars and bikes to go “low and slow,” said Alberto Pulido, the chair of the Ethnic ...
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Snubbed by Tesla, Mexican government pledges to create its own small, affordable electric car
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share MEXICO CITY (AP) — Snubbed by Tesla, Mexico’s new president pledged Friday to create a Mexican ...
Dezeen26d
"Megalopolis is a reminder that the heroic conception of the architect is an intoxicating one"
There's no doubt that Megalopolis will be fantastically destructive to New Rome, although Catalina naturally regards that as a price worth paying, and Cicero's resistance is painted as decadent ...
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Mexican local mayor went alone to meeting before his brutal killing
Photos circulated on Sunday via WhatsApp and in Mexican media outlets depicting a severed head on top of a pick-up truck, appearing to be that of Arcos. The gruesome act happened just days before ...
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Delve Architects transforms pair of houses with light-filled extensions
Skylights illuminate its open-plan kitchen area White-painted walls and kitchen cabinets are paired with oak beams and other wooden elements, culminating in a pared-back palette in the kitchen ...
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A Cartel Double-Cross Turns a Mexican State Into a War Zone
Image The Mexican federal government has sent more ... On a recent Friday, Sinaloa police found a white van spray-painted with “Welcome to Culiacán” outside a taco shop in the capital.