For many listeners, their warm feelings for Cuban music and the Cuban people began with that 1997 Buena Vista Social Club album. The "Adiós Tour" offers perhaps the last chance to share an evening with some of the club's original members.
The Coast Guard is boosting surveillance after receiving several reports of small boats in the Pacific transporting large numbers of tourists without providing minimum security measures and without insurance policies. One company is disputing those allegations.
The show, now being staged at Espressivo Theater in the eastern San José suburb of Curridabat, tells the story of a young pair of star-crossed lovers - at least, that's what they think they are.
Vaughan started playing the guitar at the age of 10, inspired by his older brother Jimmie. While he never learned to read sheet music, he had an exceptional ear and learned to play blues. He had a powerful driving style that earned him comparisons with the great Jimi Hendrix.
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Top Mexican chefs urged the president Wednesday to join them in their staunch opposition to genetically modified corn in a country where age-old grains are cherished traditions.
The new numbers up the stakes for coastal communities across the globe. "People need to be prepared," Josh Willis, an oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said. "We're going to continue to have sea level rise for decades and probably centuries."
