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 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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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS They are a ubiquitous part of Mexican culture that have survived and evolved over the centuries, and are as fashionable and adaptable today as they have ever been. Shawls (or rebozos, as they are generally known in Mexico) are a universal element of Mexican cultural heritage, worn by rural indigenous and modern-day urban fashionistas alike. “The rebozo
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