Dia de los Muertos Procession on 11/2

San Francisco has long put its own thumbprint on the Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, the Mexican holiday to honor those who have passed, on November 2. For the 30th annual procession on Sunday, hordes of burners, artists, hipsters, a few Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and other various culturephiles donned turn-of-the-century costumes and skeleton face paint and pranced through the Mission as though they just stepped out of a Jose Guadalupe Posada etching. Photos by Lauren Smiley.