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Atlas Obscura

Selections from the award-winning guide to the world's most wondrous places

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Calavera Images and José Guadalupe Posada

Jim Nikas digs up how the 19th-century Mexican graphic artist popularized the skull imagery associated with Día de Los Muertos

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César “CJ” Baldelomar ruminates on writing, memory, and death

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Dr. Michael DeAnda decodes signs of the times

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Poet Natalia Treviño cross-stitches the sacred and the ordinary

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Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo and Dr. Néstor Medina discuss scriptures, utopias, and the Chicano Movement

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Dr. Oscar García-Johnson and Dr. Kay Higuera Smith look beyond the west-side story