altar

Part photo album, part teen bedroom, part house party, part altar and part art gallery, “East of the River” never sacrifices style to content.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

A delicious deep dive on a chicken-finger empire: Raising Cane’s has inspired a near-religious following, with devotees traveling across state lines and camping overnight for store openings, all to worship at the altar of chicken.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Bubba Weiler’s touching play follows two altar boys as they prepare for their confirmations and grapple with challenges to their beliefs and their relationship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

A former altar boy, he grew up as one of seven children in Nairobi informal settlements, and his parents scraped together enough to send him to school and university, where he studied criminology.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Instead, she worked an altar cloth she’d promised Father David, and I added red flowers to the doily I’d made for Mami.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

The opera opens in the real world, as drably attired villagers assemble marigold- and candle-festooned Day of the Dead altars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

On November 1 and 2, many Mexicans will visit their dead in cemeteries and place offerings at home on colorful altars.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025

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

A trailblazer in Chicano art, Amalia Mesa-Bains is known for her reimagining of traditional Mexican altars and offerings and her presentations of Mexican American women’s spirituality.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

Maybe the offerings reappeared on the gods’ altars in Olympus...or even here, in the middle of Tartarus.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan