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Dear Creature of the Night,<br><br>Our "Day of the Dead" party is this
SUNDAY!<br><br>Dress your best. Look the "Dead"
part--suggested<br>costumes
are: calavaras (skeletons), anything<br>Mexican related, wear a calaca
(skull mask, or<br>make-up), or just be as creative as you wish.<br>There
will be 1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes!!!<br><br>We'll have you shake
your
ass all night with<br>bloody ***y tunez by: White Zombie, The
Knives,<br>Flock of Seagulls, Thrill Kill Kult, The<br>Raveonettes, NIN,
Peter Murphy, AC-DC, Le Tigre,<br>etc.<br><br>Join DJs:<br>One-Eyed Roxy
(Tina Z.)<br>Lesbian Van Halen (Leslie Van Stelten)<br>Nitzer Ted (Ted
Jacobs)<br><br>Sunday, October 29th<br>10pm-4am<br><br>Inferno @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The
Skinny
(every Sunday)<br>174 Orchard St.<br>(bet. Stanton & Houston in the
<br>Lower East Side, NYC)<br>NO COVER<br><br>For further information or if
you're interested<br>in being a guest dj contact: DJ One-Eyed Roxy
at:<br>www.myspace.com/djoneeyedroxy<br><br>Can't wait to see you
there!<br>xxxxoooo<br>ROX<br>
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A History lesson:<br><br>The Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos, Día
de<br>los Difuntos or Día de Muertos in Spanish) is an<br>ancient Aztec
celebration of the memory of<br>deceased ancestors that is celebrated on
November<br>1 (All Saints' Day) and November 2 (All
Souls'<br>Day).<br><br>The holiday is especially popular in Mexico
where<br>it is a national holiday, and is celebrated in<br>the
Philippines,
in Mexican-American communities<br>in the United States, and to a lesser
extent, in<br>other Latin Americancountries. It is a public<br>holiday in
Brazil, where many Brazilians<br>celebrate it by visiting cemeteries and
churches,<br>bringing flowers, lighting candles and praying.<br><br>Though
the subject matter may be considered<br>morbid from the Anglo Saxon
perspective, Mexicans<br>celebrate the Day of the Dead joyfully,
and<br>though it occurs at the same time asHalloween,<br>All Saints' Day
and
All Souls Day, the<br>traditional mood is much brighter with
emphasis<br>on
celebrating and honoring the lives of the<br>deceased, and celebrating the
continuation of<br>life; the belief is not that death is the end,<br>but
rather the beginning of a new stage in life.<br><br>A common symbol of the
holiday is the skull<br>(colloquially called calavera), which
celebrants<br>represent in masks, called calacas (colloquial<br>term for
"skeleton"), and foods such as Candy<br>Skulls, which are inscribed with
the
name of the<br>recipient on the forehead. Other holiday foods<br>include
pan
de muerto (or "bread of the dead"), a<br>sweet egg bread made in various
shapes, from<br>plain rounds to skulls and rabbits often<br>decorated with
white frosting to look like<br>twisted bones.<br><br>The traditions and
activities that take place in<br>celebration of the Day of the Dead are
not<br>universal and often vary from town to town. For<br>example, in the
town of Pátzcuaro on the Lago de<br>Pátzcuaro inMichoacán the tradition is
very<br>different if the deceased is a child rather than<br>an adult. On
November 1 of the year after a<br>child's death, the godparents set a
table
in the<br>parents' home with sweets, fruits, pan de muerto,<br>a cross, a
Rosary (used to pray to the Virgin<br>Mary) and candles. This is meant to
celebrate the<br>child?s life, in respect and appreciation for
the<br>parents. There is also dancing with colorful<br>costumes, often
with
skull-shaped masks and devil<br>masks in the plaza or garden of the town.
At<br>midnight on November 2, the people light candles<br>and ride winged
boats called mariposas (Spanish<br>for "butterfly") to Cuiseo, an island
in
the<br>middle of the lake where there is a cemetery, to<br>honor and
celebrate the lives of the dead there.
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