Only a week after the death of the author Mike Davis, his family made an altar for Dia de los Muertos. His widow, Alessandra Moctezuma, details some of the objects in it.

Davis, 76, sat on a couch, his wife — artist and professor Alessandra Moctezuma — by his side. He wore a T-shirt with a Celtic harp encircled by the words “Unrepentant Irish Bastard.” ...

Mike Davis has lived several distinct musical lives. He has been a student, a serious student of performance and of theory and of composition and of art. He has been a gig warrior, playing multiple ...