Culture & Lifestyle

Three decades ago, for the first time, a woman managed to join a concert band and ran into adverse circumstances; From the official who did not want to receive her documents because "in bands, there are only men"; As...

A National and International CelebrationMarch 14th was the International Day of Action for RiversCosta Rica is commemorating the International Day of Action for Rivers by celebrating the fact that eight dam projects in the southern region have been filed in...

A spiritual community for transgender people? Does that even exist? Many generations have passed since gender variant people were welcomed as spiritual beings, fully in their gender bend, in spiritual community. As a GenderQueer Androgyne myself I found that...

Indigenous Costa Ricans belong to eight major ethnic groups and live in remote forested areas of the country. Below I will give some aspects of the most prominent and well-known of these groups: The Diquis. Their remarkable stone spheres, often...

Growing up as a kid is never easy, learning about subjects and life becomes an everyday thing. Sometimes as parents we underestimate this stage because we're busy with adult life. Some parents don't even pay proper attention to their kids...

Every last week of February thousands of people come together to camp at Rancho La Merced near Uvita for the transformational festival Envision. The event is built by teams of volunteers and the organizers of Burning Man festival to model a...

Every country has its folk festivals over the year. So does Costa Rica. They are the oldest social roots of a culture. Some of them are traditions passed down from generation to generation. Others are celebrated in new, modern...

Have you ever stepped into a homeless person and felt bad for them? We can't help thinking that we could do better, but we've got our own lives so we move on. Life is hard to deal with sometimes...

Society evolves, either by accepting new behaviors promoted by minority groups or adapting to recent events. The process is slow, maybe too slow for these times where technology makes people think that everything can happen at google-speed. Science pushes...

Whenever we watch a movie, the first thing we think about is summer blockbusters. Those Marvel superhero movies that gather all the attention - and rightly so, they're good - of the public. Granted, every now and then seeing...