Showing posts with label dia de los muertos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dia de los muertos. Show all posts

Friday, October 24, 2008

Day of the Dead meets Halloween in Mercado Jamaica



Mercado Jamaica in Mexico City is painted orange this time of year, its narrow aisles bursting with chrysanthemums for Day of the Dead and a fair amount of Halloween tzotchkes. From traditional papel picado, sugar skulls and copal for offerings to glow-in-the-dark skeleton key chains and Bart Simpson masks, the market is a visual banquet of the morbid.