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Today: Tod Seelie, photographer and author of BRIGHT NIGHTS: Photographs of Another New York; and Harry Siegel, Senior Editor at THE CITY and co-host of FAQ NYC podcast, and Public Scholar at the Moynihan Center at City College.
Issue No. 438
Día de los Muertos in New Orleans
Tod Seelie
HYDRANYM No. 23: Vote!
The Editors
One Half-Life Later
Harry Siegel
Día de los Muertos in New Orleans
by Tod Seelie
New Orleans is a land of its own norms, logic, and way of being in the world. Its unique ways of celebrating, grieving, and building a culture around holidays and the accompanying costume culture set it far apart from anywhere else in the US.
Over the ten years I spent visiting once or twice a year, usually for about a month at a time, I had the great fortune to experience a lot of the culture created by artists and punks across the city. The Dia de los Muertos parade and Viking funeral were among the more memorable events.
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