Author: Thalia Henao

Thalia Henao has published 5 articles.



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Established in 2016 to highlight Los Angeles’ diverse culinary heritage, the Los Angeles Times’ Food Bowl has returned for its 7th annual celebration of the best bites across Southern California. The festival runs from September 6th-24th with activations all over the city of Los Angeles. It includes a launch party [...]

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Among its incredible vistas and high-alpine charm, Aspen, Colorado is also known to be expensive and inaccessible to most. The Raizado Festival is looking to change that. The premise of the festival is simple: to bring together Latino changemakers and to uplift the workers who often serve as the backbone [...]

Culture

As a photographer, Emily De La Torre has worked on production sets her entire career. As she navigated this world, De La Torre noticed a reality that repeated itself on the sets she visited — she was often the only person and Queer-identifying woman of color. In response to this [...]

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‘Tis the season for tamales, mole, and turkey (or pernil). On Thanksgiving, families across the States come together to celebrate with several courses of food and conversation, with the possibility of cocktails or coquitos in between. Some folks come prepared with a new outfit, even though they’ll be celebrating in [...]

Culture

Día de los Muertos is a celebration dating to pre-hispanic times with its origins tracing back to Mexico. Indigenous communities, ranging from the Nahuas to the Zapotec, created rituals around death and worshiped the deceased through different practices. For example, one such practice involved sending the deceased off to the [...]