Peru Edition
World Safe Crossing Day leads today's complete edition for Peru.
Daily Edition
Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for roads, crosswalks, signals, ferry landings, station platforms, and the care people owe one another in motion.
Canadian Halloween is American Halloween with colder weather. The costumes are the same but the coats go over them. The little ninja who spent an hour on his mask is now a ninja in a parka and nobody can tell who he is. The pillowcase full of candy will last until November 10. The candy tax levied by parents is real and it is not optional.
The day honoring the creole music of Peru, and it is celebrated with concerts, parties, and the traditional creole food (causa limea, anticuchos, and picarones). The creole music includes the vals (waltz), the polca, and the marinera, and the most famous creole singer is Chabuca Granda (who wrote "La Flor de la Canela"). The day is both celebration and identity, and the reminder that the creole culture is the foundation of the Peruvian identity.
