Arts and Culture

Costa Rican Urban Legends: Truths and Myths Unfold

Don Mateo - May 9, 2024

In this viral era, a rumor can circle the globe in seconds. Disinformation is taken as fact. The more it is repeated, the more...

Sesame Street Features Costa Rica in Papaya-Themed Episode

March 15, 2024

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

December 30, 2023

A Healthy Costa Rica New Year: Blended Green Juice

December 28, 2023

What is the El Tope Parade in Costa Rica?

December 26, 2023

Arts and Culture

A Christmas story we weren’t meant to hear

Mitzi Stark - December 24, 2023

Christmas one hundred and seven years ago meant Christmas trees with real candles, women in long skirts and petticoats, and men with waxed mustaches...

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Hate Speech on the Rise in Costa Rica, UN Warns

Tico Times - July 7, 2023

The United Nations (UN) has urged Costa Rica to take urgent action to address the constant growth of violence, aggression, and hate speech on...

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Bad Bunny and Anitta add Latin touch to the Grammys

AFP - February 5, 2023

The 65th Annual Grammy Awards this Sunday could become the scene of another historic moment for Latin music with Bad Bunny and Anitta, two...

Arts & Culture

U.S. citizen arrested in Costa Rica with pre-Columbian artifacts in his luggage

AFP - January 31, 2023

Costa Rican airport authorities detained on Monday a U.S. citizen who was trying to fly with seven pre-Columbian pieces of about 1,200 years old...

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Was 2022 a Bad Year? Try a little Costa Rican Magic for a Lucky 2023

The Tico Times - December 31, 2022

An old Tico belief holds that whatever you’re doing when the clock strikes 12 on Dec. 31 will characterize your year to come.

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Costa Rica National Museum Recovers 33 Pre-Columbian Pieces

Ileana Fernandez - December 18, 2022

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,...

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

Is Artificial Intelligence the future of art?

AFP - June 12, 2022

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

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Depeche Mode keyboardist Andy Fletcher dies

AFP - May 28, 2022

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...

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

The Tico Times - April 13, 2022

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