A Day of the Dead celebration Saturday at Dallas' Latino Cultural Center drew a crowd of about 400 seeking to reconnect with their culture, as well as lost loved ones.

"We are trying to help people keep their roots and culture," said Irasema Romero, spokeswoman for the center.

Along with musical entertainment and a play by Teatro Flor Candela, the event featured 10 altars created by community artists.

"The altars show a commemoration to something or someone," Ms. Romero said. "And this not only helps us remember what our ancestors did in Mexico, but it also helps younger generations become involved."

Claudia Godinez of Dallas said she attends a Día de Los Muertos celebration each year. She's particularly fond of the altars, which she says remind her of South Texas, where she grew up.

"It's just a connection back to who I am," she said, gazing at an altar dedicated to mothers and grandmothers. "It's always wonderful to see the commemorations to the abuelas [grandmothers] and the children, but especially the abuelas because those are the people that connect back to decades past."

Traditionally, Mexico's Day of the Dead mixes Roman Catholicism and indigenous beliefs with events tied to All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day. The celebrations feature altars with offerings to the departed.

Ivonne Acero didn't honor anyone she knows with her Stairway to Heaven altar, but it still holds special significance, commemorating victims of domestic violence.

"I grew up in a home where there was domestic violence," Ms. Acero said, "and when I learned that 120 women in Texas died of domestic violence [in 2006], that was the bottom line for me."

The altar featured a staircase with a young girl draped in white at the top. Along the front lay flower petals, dolls and a white cross with names of the victims.

"As an artist, it is my way of making the world a little better," Ms. Acero said.

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LOST: The Constant Episode

The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Season Two of the ABC series, "Lost," specifically the episode "The Constant."
My first reaction to this week’s episode of “Lost” was one that even surprised me: I was disappointed that it was a Desmond-centered episode.

I have nothing against Desmond -- it’s just that I think his character has gotten less interesting over the last year or so. Sure he has visions, but so did Doyle and Cordelia in “Angel,” and Johnny Smith in “The Dead Zone.” In short -- we’ve been there, seen that.

Still, it was an entertaining episode, and a fine acting performance by Henry Ian Cusick left me caring about Desmond more than I have in quite some time.

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CRazy Episode 7 of Lost

"Jorge Garcia, also known as Hugo on Lost, reveals in a blog post that, "As shocking as these scripts have been for us nothing as [sic] shocked us more than the end of episode 7." OMG! Something to note, episode seven will be the last episode before a six week hiatus (yeah, cuz they need another break!) so a cliffhanger won't be surprising. Spoilers coming up, so turn your eyes away if you don't want to know anything about the seventh episode.
The episode, titled "Ji Yeon", features Sun and Jin's storyline off-island, though it's unclear whether or not this will be a flashback or flashforward. Given how each episode in the season so far has had flashforwards I'm assuming Sun and Jin are the final two survivors that head back to the mainland. This is even more probable since this episode also features Juliette revealing "startling news" to Jin when Sun threatens to join Locke. I'm guessing she tells Jin that if he wants Sun to live he has to take her and the baby off the island.
The episode also features stunts by Grindhouse alum Zoë Bell. Will she be scissor kicking with Sayid on the freighter or will she be in a flash- back or forward?
I'm pretty sure Ji Yeon is a popular Korean name for girls, which makes me think Sun gets off the island and has her baby, which she names Ji Yeon... Strangely, I googled the name and found a Korean actress by the same name who had a bit part in the K-horror film, Memento Mori, which is Latin for, "remember that you are mortal". Coincidence?"

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Britney leaves hospital with Dr Phil Herald Sun: "BRITNEY Spears was released from hospital yesterday, a day after the troubled singer was stripped of access to her two children following a late-night medical drama.
Spears, 26, avoided throngs of paparazzi photographers by leaving Cedars Sinai Medical Centre through a tunnel.
The scandal-prone pop star, who left the hospital after doctors decided she was no longer a danger to herself, was accompanied by TV psychologist Dr Phil McGraw."

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