(Part two in a two-part series on improving and repopulating San José.)AS developers’ eyes and investors’ pocketbooks remain fixated on urban sprawl east, west,...
SHARP, staccatobarks loud enoughto be heard over a jetengine had me instantlyawake, glancingaround the roomin mild panic as Itried to determinethe cause of the...
THE July 23 opening of “NuestroMundo: Fotografías por Niños Costarricenses”(Our World: Photographs by CostaRican Children) at the Children’s Museumin San José marked the beginning...
HAVINGreached an agewhen the onlyimportant taskremaining is tocompose a flatteringeulogy andfind a reliable oratorto deliver it, Iwas not pleased toreceive a delegationrepresentingmy numerous offspringdemandingthat...
IF, like Nellie Forbush in the musical“South Pacific,” you’ve ever wondered“how it feels, living on a hillside, lookingon an ocean, beautiful and still,” here’syour...
COSTA Rica lost a dedicated peaceand human-rights worker and teacher onJuly 11 with the passing of Erna CastroSteinvorth. Castro taught for nearly 20years at...
AN ambitious and beautifully wroughtpresentation of Giacomo Puccini’s opera“Madama Butterfly” opened at San José’sNational Theater last week.Two casts, one a mixed internationaland Costa Rican...
