Día de Muertos

NY Dispatch: A lifetime ago in 2019 my husband and I were on the Lower East side celebrating Halloween with friends who travel off the beaten path. They took us to an Eastern European costume party where the music was fantastic, a mélange of 80s hits and Balkan tunes, and the crowd was eager to party. Later we paraded around the East Village with hundreds of others in costume, moving from one bar to another, running into people they knew along the way. It was a warm, exciting night full of adven...