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The 13th edition of the International Arts Festival (FIA), organized by the Ministry of Culture and Youth (MCJD) and the National Theater, has been a total success among the residents of the great metropolitan area.The festival’s producers reported than...

When speaking of Costa Rican movies, it’s become the norm to measure the achievements of the latest release by comparing them only to the local movies that came before it. Most of the movies’ shortcomings are justified with the...

Costa Rica will seek to sell at least $500 million in bonds abroad this year to help sustain economic growth and improve the Central American nation’s infrastructure, Finance Minister Fernando Herrero said.Costa Rica joined Trinidad & Tobago and Bolivia...

Recently I heard a scientist say, “Time is the most stubborn psychological filter we have.” That’s true.There are two main filtering mechanisms that have to be negated in passive awareness for meditation to begin--the separate observer, and psychological time.One...

As Albert Einstein once said about filling out tax returns, "This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher." But philosopher or not, everybody knows it's that swell season of the year again, with only a month...

With more and more movies being made in Costa Rica, we are now seeing projects that go beyond the fervent nationalism that has been the norm for local productions. Movies are being made with international audiences in mind and...

She walked up as I was finishing my sitting at streamside. Announcing she was a Buddhist lama, ordained by a well-known rinpoche under the Dalai Lama, she said she’d just given a weekend retreat for 20-somethings in town.The sun...

It was the strangest and most beautiful sky I’d ever seen. After witnessing three dramatic changes in weather within an hour, I stood transfixed looking back on the sycamore I had sat under. Its white bark gleamed in the...

My old man has a basketball jones. When I was growing up, we spent every winter Saturday in Jenison Fieldhouse, Michigan State University’s Art Deco barn of an arena.For 14 years, my dad published an annual called College Basketball Guide,...

Kirani James suffered a major upset in the IAAF World Indoor Championships finishing sixth in the last position in the Men’s 400 metres in Istanbul on Saturday.James could not meet the challenge of running from lane one as Costa...