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Costa Rica’s Festive New Year Traditions in the Pura Vida Spirit

The Tico Times - December 30, 2025

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A Christmas story we weren’t meant to hear

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Thanksgiving Around the World: A Celebration of Gratitude and Harvest

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Costa Rican Urban Legends: Truths and Myths Unfold

The Tico Times’ tennis section covers the ATP and WTA tours, the four Grand Slams, and Latin American players competing on the international circuit for English-speaking readers in Costa Rica and Central America. Reporting by Tennis Correspondent Steven Hodel. Subscribe via RSS to follow our coverage.

Costa Rica National Museum Recovers 33 Pre-Columbian Pieces

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Thirty-three pre-Columbian ceramic pieces were brought to Costa Rica and given backto the National Museum last Tuesday, December 13. Small and medium-sized pots, musical instruments,...

Primavera Sound Returns for Bumper 20th Edition, Expands to Americas

Is Artificial Intelligence the future of art?

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To many they are art's next big thing -- digital images of jellyfish pulsing and blurring in a dark pink sea, or dozens of...

Depeche Mode keyboardist Andy Fletcher dies

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Andrew Fletcher, a founding member of the British electronic band Depeche Mode, had died aged 60, the band announced Thursday. "We are shocked and filled...

5 (debated) things about Costa Rica’s National Hero Juan Santamaría?

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Some historians and sociologists say the original construction of the Juan Santamaría myth was, well, convenient.

Who Was The Costa Rica Cacique Garabito?

Sarah Jordan -

No different than any other heavenly place in Costa Rica, Garabito is of magnificent beauty in its abundance of sprawling diverse nature and beaches....

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here’s the chemistry that makes your beer taste good (or bad)

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In a recent study, researchers found that more layers of foam on top of a liquid make it less likely to spill. So going with some hearty traditional beer may be good for more than just your holiday spirit. It could keep your clothes dry, too, as you get tipsier.

Coldplay will play before a capacity crowd in Costa Rica

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The biggest concert of the year is about to happen this Friday, March 18 and anticipation is growing with the arrival of 3 of...

Octopus, Meat or Fruit? Origins of the Pulpería

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When I first came to live in Costa Rica, I could only do my shopping in a pulpería, a small grocery store in which...

Guatemalan Catholics resume processions suspended due to the pandemic

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Amid solemn music, pyrotechnics and crowds, Catholic parishioners in Guatemala resumed Saturday the processions suspended in 2020 because of the covid-19 pandemic, which has...