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Where To Celebrate Cinco De Mayo In London

Where to get your Mexican feast on this weekend.

Gran calavera eléctrica ("Grand electric skull") by José Guadalupe Posada, 1900–1913.

Where To Celebrate Day Of The Dead In London

You don’t need to go all the way to Oaxaca to pay your respects to the dearly departed.

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Review: Miracles & Charms @ Wellcome Collection

Faith, hope and chance will leave you charmed.

Yesenia Concepcion Vega Marquez, disappeared 26th February 2001.

Preview + Interview: 400 Women

Yesenia Concepcion Vega Marquez, disappeared 26th February 2001. Since 1993, more than 400 women have been brutally raped, mutilated and murdered in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez in the region of Chihuahua. Hundreds more have simply disappeared. Images of many of them, by …

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Where To Celebrate Day Of The Dead In London

Photo / hoveringdog Celebrated across Mexico and in large swathes of southern America, Dia de los Muertos occurs at the beginning of each November, While us gringos are searching the Poundstretcher aisles for that last capsule of fake blood, Mexicans are busy making ofrendas to …

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Review: Quetzalcoatl: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo @ Diemar/Noble

Image courtesy of Diemar/Noble   Tapping into the spirit of Mexico’s bicentennial celebrations, Quetzalcoatl: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo allows Londoners a poignant glimpse into Mexican life during 20th century. Featuring black and white photographs from the 1920s through to the 90s by Manuel Alvarez …

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How To Celebrate Mexican Independence Day In London

We know all about Canada Day and the Fourth of July, but the North American country that knows how to have the most fun commemorating the day it threw off the shackles of European dominion is Mexico. Every September 15th Mexicans celebrate their nation’s birth …

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Review: Lucha Libre London at the Roundhouse

We’ve always romanticised what our first Lucha Libre would be like. Running from both gangsters and the law through the mean streets of Mexico City, we duck down a back street only to discover the most magnificent fighting arena imaginable. We quickly buy our ticket …

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Preview: Lucha Libre London

With their acrobatic leaps and iconic masks, Mexican wrestlers are known all over the world. As one would expect, witnessing one of their wildly energetic matches generally involves buying a plane ticket to Mexico. For three days this weekend, however, you can experience all the …

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International Football @ Arsenal and Fulham

Our own brave lads might be about to do battle with the mighty French in Paris (insert inappropriate Agincourt reference here), but even though there’s nothing on at Wembley this time around that’s no reason to miss out on some excellent live international footy this …