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What to do in Costa Rica in September

The hustle over the World Cup has ended, along with the pilgrimage to Cartago and Mother's Day. If you're wondering what on earth to...

5 questions for Costa Rican pop rock band Half Tangerine

A chat with the creators of ACAM's best pop album of the year.

Celebrating Valentine’s Day the Costa Rican Way: Love with a Smile

As a U.S. citizen living in Costa Rica, I’m thinking of this Valentine’s Day almost like another Thanksgiving. At a time in history when...

Costa Rican Folk Magic: Everyday Superstitions and Their Cultural Significance

Agüizotes are the folk beliefs, small superstitions or minor brujería (witchcraft) of Costa Rica. Dionisio Cabal Antillón, the noted cultural journalist, calls them the...

5 questions for Costa Rican DJ Esteban Howell

After spinning in music venues across the Central America and Mexico, Howell founded a school dedicated to training Costa Rica's next generation of electronic music DJs.

VIDEO: Rolling Stones promise ‘historic’ Cuba concert

The Rolling Stones took to Cuban media to promise a "historic" occasion when they give their first Havana concert this Friday in a communist country where rock 'n roll was long considered subversive.

Riders, Traditions, and Festivities: Costa Rica’s Annual Tope Parade in San José

Thousands of riders and their equine companions came from different corners of Costa Rica to show off their best riding styles, saddles and outfits.

Welcome to Bound Brook, New Jersey, ground zero of Costa Rican migration to the US

BOUND BROOK, New Jersey – Few people know it, but this flood-prone little town on the banks of New Jersey’s Raritan River is the birthplace of the lowly graham cracker – invented in the 1830s by an evangelist named Sylvester Graham to control sexual urges. Another claim to fame: In recent years, it’s become the epicenter of Tico migration to the United States.

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