To Pablo Formal, sharing a cultural experience is even better when you’re also sharing a good beer. This weekend, Formal is going Gaelic: He’s bringing an enormous St. Patrick’s Day celebration to Escazú.
Malaysia said Friday it was dramatically expanding the already vast scope of its search for a missing passenger plane, admitting it was no closer to solving the agonizing aviation mystery a week after the jet vanished.
More than 600 fishermen and environmentalists united Thursday morning to protest a bill that would reinstate shrimp trawling in Costa Rican waters. "Pesca arrastre es un desastre," they shouted.
More than just a dry conference for stuffy intellectuals, the festival features diverse lecturers hail from all over the world, and their presentations are multimedia feasts for the eyes. Like a TEDx conference on steroids, FID is expected to draw about 2,000 attendees.
Former leftist rebel commander Salvador Sánchez Cerén has won last Sunday's presidential election in El Salvador by a razor-thin margin, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal said.
Racó, which offers blind dinners with a reservation on Friday and Saturday night, forgoes the blind waitstaff and pitch black setting for chocolate colored blindfolds guests tie themselves. Diners are encouraged to eat with their hands but each seat is ready with a full place setting if someone is bold enough to blindly wield a knife and fork. To add a bit of sport to the affair, Vargas asked us to write down what we thought we had eaten after each course and offered a complimentary bottle of wine to the winning table.
