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Smoke and thunderous drum beats filled the air as an Indigenous-tinged dance parade marched in front of Pomona resident Lorena Silva’s family altar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

A pair of deep seats covered in nubby upholstery sit close to this sacred space’s altar — a vinyl-stacked media console holding a vintage receiver and turntable, flanked by two ATC SCM50 loudspeakers.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

The election of Leo XIV as Pope "touched something inside me," said Kawakami, who will be among the altar servers at the papal mass.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

And the unintended upshot could be more wealthy couples staying together, while the less prosperous among us avoid the altar entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

At one end of her playhouse, Daisy had built a little altar.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

By the mid-20th century, this inherited relationship with the macabre migrated from home altars and rural folk traditions into the pavement of urban youth cultures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

It is a central element in the lavish altars erected to the deceased on November 1-2 and is also used to festoon homes and streets.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Today, the excavated base of the Templo Mayor, the step pyramid topped with altars to the Aztec gods of war and rain, is an open-air archaeological site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

In England during the Reformation it was not only the altars that were stripped, but also sites in the landscape which were associated with animacy.

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

In college chapels I would listen to folk singing and see plain altars draped with bright applique banners: JOY!

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez