By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A colorful pageant of hundreds of oversized winged dragons, gargantuan multihued insects and superhuman-sized Catrina walking-dead dolls took to the streets in Mexico City on Saturday, Oct. 22, as the now-iconic Monumental Alebrijes Parade got underway at the capital’s Zócalo central plaza shortly after 10 a.m. The parade, which was heralded in a concert of spooky-toned music
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — Cancelled last year as a precautionary measure due to the covid-19 pandemic, Mexico City’s Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) parade is back on track this year. The parade — a recent phenomenon popularized by Hollywood-style movies (specifically, the 2015 James Bond thriller “Spectre”) — is a mobile collection of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As part of an ongoing outreach program for foreign diplomats accredited in Mexico, Ambassador Mireya Téran organized a private tour of Mexico City’s Folk Art Museum (MAP) on Monday, May 17. The tour was offered in both Spanish and English to the wives of ambassadors and other foreign diplomats, and was conducted under strict covid-19 sanitation protocols.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s beloved, fanciful monsters known as alebrijes were invented in the 1930s by Pedro Linares in the southern state of Oaxaca. One night, while in a mild coma from illness, Linares dreamed of surreal magical animals playing in a forest and all shouting the word, “alebrijes.” When he awoke, he began creating these creatures
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For the 12th straight year, a pageant of hundreds of oversized winged dragons, gargantuan multihued insects and superhuman-sized Catrina walking-dead dolls took to the streets in Mexico City on Saturday, Oct. 21, as the now-iconic Monumental Alebrijes Parade got underway. The parade, which this year was heralded in by a spooky-toned blues concert courtesy of Bandula and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s often been said that one man’s nightmare is another man’s dream, but in the case of alebrijes, one man’s nightmare became his own dream-come-true path to success. Back in the early 1930s, Pedro Linares, a poor Mixe paper maché artisan in the remote Oaxacan village of San Martín Tilcajete was in the throws of illness in
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