By Tauri Hagemann Many people have become familiar with the iconography of Día de los Muertos, after the success of movies like Disney’s Coco (2017), which includes sugar skulls, pan dulce, and home altars to the departed—but many people in the U.S. don’t understand exactly why it is that these specific things are important in […]

Candy corn seems to always be on the shelf when the calendar strikes October, then disappears only to reappear every year like clockwork. A constant during Autumn, candy corn is a staple in most households around the time of Halloween—whether it’s to munch on in the bowl on the counter, to distribute to trick-or-treaters, or […]