Culture & Lifestyle

Two recent reports prove that GDP does not measure quality of life, using Costa Rica as an example for other countries. The two reports are the Happy Planet Index report and the Social Project Index of 2016. The reports use...

The Museum of Jade in downtown San Jose is a fantastic cultrience that visitors of any age can enjoy, it's one of Costa Rica's best kept secrets housing the largest collection of American Jade in the world. The Museum...

For those new to alternative medicinal practices, acupuncture is often considered one of the more taboo methods of treating back and neck pain.  The thought of having hundreds of thin needles stuck into different parts of one's body, called...

The National Yoga Festival will be held from the 30th of July until the 31st of JulyFor two days, yoga will be the main event in a big celebration that will revolve around this discipline. The 30th and 31st of...

Fruit The World is hosting a week-long event to cultivate and celebrate natural health through a fruit-based diet and lifestyle at Punta Mona on the Southern Caribbean coast.This September 16th to 23rd, the Costa Rica Fruit Festival will feature...

Fourteen people, eight of them foreigners, were injured during the running of the bulls this Friday during the festivals of San Fermin in Pamplona (in the Northern part of Spain), two of them were in a particularly bad state...

I sat at a picnic table overlooking the waves of Montezuma´s beaches and listened to a woman across the table from me describe Enrique Iglesias using some of the adjectives she just learned. She was older, but despite that...

A food festival would be the first step taken by The Municipality of San José to reactivate the China Town district which is located between avenues 2 and 14, and streets 7 and 11 in the center of the...

According to Fabiola Armas, the distributor of Romaly,  Finding Dory has better numbers than movies like “Independence Day” and “Ninja Turtles.”“It was released with big expectations on June 16th and from this date it has been supported as number 1....

The National Museum has a range of fun workshops for free, mostly for children over 7 years free. There will be 19 workshops between the 4th and 15th of July in the mornings and afternoons.In some cases the workshops...