Día de los Muertos: What's the Deal with All Those Skulls?

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Manos Magicas / photo by Olivia Flores Alvarez

Da de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) has mistakenly been called a Mexican Halloween (not!).

A brief explanation, with photos from Manos Magicas, Casa Ramirez, Barrio Antiguo and Arthur Miller.

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