Halloween & Día de los Muertos

Food and the dead, Irish begging door-to-door, Tim Burton’s “Nightmare Before Christmas,” Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”

“Coco,” directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina (Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Studios, 2017). A terrific animated film that makes use of Mexican customs surrounding the Day of the Dead.

Halloween, an event now celebrated in many parts of the world, has come to mean different things to different people. For adults, the holiday has acquired a Mardi-Gras flavor and offers opportunities to pose at…