The differences between Day of the Dead and Halloween
Day of the Dead vs. Halloween is not a costume question. One night keeps the dead away; the other feeds them, and on this coast, the Maya version has its own name.
Continue readingA jar older than the walled city is coming to the museum, and the hall meant to hold it has not yet been built. Much of what this town owns arrives before the room is ready: a name on a terminal in another municipality, a crosswalk waiting on a budget nobody has voted on. The sargassum came back too, three weeks after the water had cleared. What does not wait is the work people do on their own, a fighter who began again at one class a week and is now training for Worlds. Tulum builds the room eventually. Here is the week while it does.
Day of the Dead vs. Halloween is not a costume question. One night keeps the dead away; the other feeds them, and on this coast, the Maya version has its own name.
Continue readingAmerican Airlines Tulum flights lose Miami on January 5, 2027, leaving one daily Dallas jet with 78 seats as the airport’s operator projects US service nearly doubling.
Continue readingAmira Neme returned to Tulum jiu-jitsu in May 2025 with one class a week. Six AJP golds later, she is training for the IBJJF No-Gi Worlds in Las Vegas.
Continue readingA Tulum airport name change is on the table after councilman Eugenio Barbachano said the terminal in Felipe Carrillo Puerto should stop carrying the destination’s name.
Continue readingCouncilman Eugenio Barbachano says he wants no candidacy in 2027, only an opposition bloc that treats the Tulum tourism crisis as the emergency the state government still will not name.
Continue readingSeven Mesoamerican cultures that never settled this coast are entering the Tulum museum at Parque del Jaguar, and 47 of the 53 new pieces will anchor a hall that does not exist yet.
Continue readingThe sargassum in Tulum returned this week, three weeks after the water cleared, and Quintana Roo’s record 2026 haul has already passed 138,000 tons.
Continue readingTulum’s 2026 revenue law books 36,395,275 pesos from a street lighting charge, about 22 percent more than in 2025, while repairs still arrive one neighbor’s complaint at a time.
Continue readingFederal road upkeep funding is set to fall by nearly half in 2027, and the requests Tulum has pending on Highway 307 are contingent on a budget that deputies have not yet voted on.
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