Source: Flickr Commons (PRWEB) November 30, 2015 - NewsWatch featured NatureVision TV as part of its monthly AppWatch, which takes a look at the latest and coolest applications on the market for iOS, Android, and Windows. Joe Toohey, the host of AppWatch and technology expert, conducted the app review and shared with viewers how this channel features hundreds of hours of HD and 4K footage of t...

Source: UPR San Juan, Nov 22 (EFE).- Students and professors from the University of Puerto Rico, or UPR, made a Christmas tree using plastic bottles to draw attention to the need to recycle and protect the environment. The six-meter (20-foot) tree at the campus in Carolina, a San Juan suburb, will be decorated with 2,000 plastic bottles and the manger was constructed with shipping pallets, ...

Garcia Marquez. Source: Flickr Commons Bogota, Nov 27 (EFE).- Bolivian author Magela Baudoin won the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Spanish American Short Story Award on Friday for her collection "La composicion de la sal" (Salt's Composition), the jury in this capital said. The jury, whose decision was read by writer Conrado Zuluaga, hailed Baudoin's "great talent" and her "skill in telling storie...

John Lock Instagram Diehard fans of the hit television series Glee, which aired on the Fox network from 2009 to 2015, have recently taken to social media to investigate a possible cast member reunion happening in Costa Rica. Ostensibly, the reason for this impromptu reunion would be the marriage ceremony of one of Glee's stars in Tamarindo Beach, a destination that is known to attract celebrit...

"Supporting acid attack survivors in Bangladesh (6395599437)" by DFID - UK Department for International Development - Supporting acid attack survivors in BangladeshUploaded by russavia. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons By Alberto Peña Agra, India, Nov 18 (EFE).- A cafe in the northern Indian city of Agra provides a space where female victims of acid attacks can shed the burden of phys...

US CBP Press Release - Additional Reporting by The Costa Rica Star / LOS ANGELES—U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists assigned to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) seized 450 prohibited pork meat tamales discovered inside the luggage of a passenger arriving from Mexico, on November 2. The passenger, who was referred to agriculture examination, marked “YES” ...

Shelley Lubben, right, at an adult industry expo in 2009 More than 20 people who lined up to hear a lecture by a former pornographic actress near San Jose were disappointed to learn that the long-awaited event was canceled at the last minute. According to a news report filed by entertainment reporter Ariel Chaves Gonzalez of daily tabloid Diario Extra, those who were stood up by the former adu...

Source: WhoSay.com New York, Nov 17 (EFE).- Actor Charlie Sheen confirmed Tuesday that he has been a carrier of the HIV virus that causes AIDS and that he has been blackmailed by unidentified persons who threatened to sell his secret to the media. In an interview on NBC's "Today" show, Sheen said his disease began with a series of "crushing" headaches, adding that "I thought I had a brain t...

Star triathlete Beth Gerdes and child enjoy a tender family moment Endurance Sportswire - PLAYA OCOTAL, Guanacaste, Costa Rica—RaceQuest, a travel and event management company focused exclusively on the unique training and travel needs of athletes and their families, announced the addition of champion professional triathletes, Luke McKenzie and Beth Gerdes to the star-studded lineup of the tra...

Source: Amazon.com SAN DIEGO (PRWEB) November 16, 2015 - Cleft lip and palate are birth defects that occur when a baby’s lip or mouth do not form properly during pregnancy. Author Maribel Moses is the Vice-President of the Smiles International Foundation, which helps children who suffer from this defect. Moses is an artist born and raised in Costa Rica. She has written her new children’s se...

Wikimedia Commons A pair of 1963 Washington, D.C. license plates, which were on the limousine carrying John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie on the fateful day of his assassination on November 22, 1963, were sold at a recent week. The asking price was $40,000, but the final sale price was $100,000, sold to an anonymous Kennedy memorabilia collector. $80,000 went to the seller, Jane Walker, and $...

The legendary film director/producer duo of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are often considered to be Hollywood royalty. Together, Howard and Grazer have made highly successful movies such as A Beautiful Mind, Rush and The Da Vinci Code, and their latest creation is of a scientific nature. The Age of Aging is a film that is broadcast as part of Breakthrough, a new National Geographic Channel serie...

Starbucks News Media Release / The holidays are a special time at Starbucks with tastes and experiences that inspire the spirit of the season. The 2015 holiday season has arrived as Starbucks® stores around the world are now filled with a full assortment of seasonal food, beverages and merchandise. Starbucks Reserve® Christmas 2015: Select stores will offer this first-edition holiday coffee wit...

Froozer SAN FRANCISCO, November 11, 2015 /3BL Media/ ­– Obesity and diabetes rates in the United States have hit an all-time high. More than two in three American adults are considered overweight today, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a health research center. Children are no better off, reporting skyrocketing increases in new Type-2 diabetes cases; a condition pr...

Japanese zen garden. Wikimedia Commons By Maria Roldan Tokyo, Nov 10 (EFE).- In Japanese society, where consumerism has become almost a national obsession, an increasing number of people are opting away from materialism and embracing a minimalist lifestyle, which they claim provides them with enormous freedom. Fumio Sasaki has just 20 items of clothing in his closet, with an electric too...

Source: Apple One of the most popular wearable computing devices in the market will soon be worn on the wrists of iPhone users in Costa Rica who can afford them. The Apple Watch will start selling in Costa Rica later this month, specifically on November 20th, at stores operated by official distributor iCon. The Apple Watch models that will be sold in Costa Rica include the sport versions of...

La Viuda Negra, a Colombian telenovela. Flickr Commos Certain telenovelas, those popular and melodramatic television serials that are the Latin American equivalent of soap operas, should be banned from the airwaves in Costa Rica, according to a legislative proposal considered by a legislator from the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) political party earlier this year. According to a news report p...

Source: Tiendas Ekono The United States may have created the shopping craze known as Black Friday, but retailers in Costa Rica have up the ante with Black November, a month-long celebration to consumption that starts a few weeks ahead of the Friday after Thanksgiving Day. One of the first merchants to roll out Black November in Costa Rica is the department store chain Ekono, a national disc...

"CharlieSheenMarch2009" by Angela George. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons A dental technician who claimed she was groped and attacked by a reportedly drug-addled Hollywood star has chosen to dismiss her civil lawsuit. A little over a year ago, Margarita Palestino filed a complaint against Carlos Estevez, better known as Charlie Sheen, for what she claimed was outrageous behav...

Cuevana Montevideo, Nov 3 (EFE; additional reporting by The Costa Rica Star).- Uruguay's Anti-Piracy Association has sued Cuevana, an Argentine Web site that allows users to watch television series and movies for free, to prevent access to its content in Uruguay. "The rest of the world can do whatever they think is necessary, but in Uruguay it shouldn't be accessible," the association's pre...

Washington, Nov 6 (EFE).- A 32-year-old Texas man who is dying of cancer had his dream come true of seeing the latest film in the "Star Wars" saga in an exclusive screening before it reaches theaters in December. Daniel Fleetwood, given two months to live by doctors last July, is a great fan of the saga, which led his wife to launch a campaign on social networks urging the producers of "The For...

Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) November 04, 2015 - The overseas-living experts at InternationalLiving.com are calling on the public to help them decide who should be the overall winner for their “Best Job in the World” contest. More than 1,000 hopefuls entered the competition, which is looking for a writer to travel to one or more of the world’s best retirement havens and report back on the experience. ...

Wikimedia Commons Los Angeles, Nov 3 (EFE).- "Star Trek" returns to the small screen with a "totally new" series starting in January 2017, CBS Television Studios said. The series will kick off with a special program on the CBS network, but the first episode and those that follow will be available in the U.S. exclusively on CBS All Access, a cross-platform streaming service that includes bot...

British actor Daniel Craig performs during the shooting of the 24th James Bond movie 'Spectre' in Rome, Italy. EFE Since James Bond first hit the silver screen back in 1962 with Dr. No, the 007 secret agent has had us both shaken and stirred. Between mass killings (strictly on behalf of her Majesty’s Secret Service, of course) and regularly dancing with death, Bond always finds time to kick ba...

Source: Point Break Twitter Los Angeles, Oct 30 (EFE).- Edgar Ramirez provided a sneak peek in Los Angeles at "Point Break," a remake of the 1991 thriller starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves, and which this time around switches the Venice Beach setting for a global eco-adventure. In the new version, a young FBI agent, played by Luke Bracey, infiltrates a group of extreme-athletes suspe...

The killer in Merciless stalks his next victim. Source: Globo International Globo’s production of series, known worldwide for its unique character and high quality, is set to delight the Costa Rican audience. Teletica, the largest TV network in Costa Rica, has licensed six titles from the Brazilian broadcaster’s 2015 catalog: the series ‘Merciless’ and ‘The Hunter’, the miniseries ‘Doomed’ and...

Garcia Marquez. Source: Flickr Commons Austin, Texas, Oct 29 (EFE).- When a young Salman Rushdie was introduced to the English edition of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in 1975, shortly after having his first novel - "Grimus" - published, it marked the beginning of a love affair with the work of Colombian Nobel literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, an author he never met in person. T...

Source: Miss Mexico Facebook Mexico City, Oct 29 (EFE).- Wendolly Esparza, winner of the beauty contest title Nuestra Belleza Mexico in 2014, says she has "prepared arduously" to win the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant, a contest in which she is eager to compete now that Mexico is back in it following real estate magnate Donald Trump's departure from the show. "I have prepared arduously for this...

"Juan Luis Guerra 2012" by Acancino - →This file has been extracted from another file: Juan Luis Guerra AC.jpg.. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - San Juan (EFE).- Dominican musician Juan Luis Guerra kicked off his "Todo tiene su hora" American tour in San Juan, showing that he is at the top of his game and getting the 15,000 people in the audience moving to the merengue, bachata, sals...

By Carol Blair Vaughn Who’s Happy in Costa Rica? Forbes Magazine asked on November 13, 2014, “Want to Be Happy?  Move to Costa Rica.” Their conclusions were based on the results of a UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center Qualtrics Survey of 40,000 students from around the world in which Costa Rica emerged as – Numero Uno on the Happiness Index. So why do 50-60% of Americans who move to...

Surf Rock Reggae by Mr. Kowalsky From October 26th to October 31st, Costa Rica's own Mr. Kowalsky will make media appearances in Mexico to introduce the new album SURF ROCK REGGAE, play acoustic gigs, show the new video clip for the single “LIVE ONCE” and more. SURF ROCK REGGAE was recorded at Hurley Recordings Studio in Costa Mesa, California, earlier this year. In this new album, Mr. Kowa...

Outback Jack's Costa Rica Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica, October 23, 2015 (Newswire) - ​​In Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica, Penny and Jack Williams, the owners of Outback Jack's Beach Bar N Grill, are finally retiring to write their books. Rather than selling their internationally known restaurant, they thought it would be a lot more fun to run an essay contest for someone to wi...

Rio de Janeiro, Oct 22 (EFE). - Brazilian researchers have identified a protein trace in coffee with pain and anxiety relieving properties similar to morphine's, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, or Embrapa, said. The substance's effects have already been tested on lab mice, Embrapa, considered the world's largest tropical agricultural research center, said. The discovery was ...

With the skyrocketing costs of healthcare in America, many patients are beginning to look outside of the US for their health and dental care. Because of Latin America’s reputation for healthcare quality and as an enjoyable place to rest and recover post-surgery, many nations in Latin America are becoming popular destinations for medical and dental tourism. Mexico is a common and popular dental car...

Siri Lindley with training clients Endurance SportsWire Press Release. PLAYA OCOTAL, Costa Rica – RaceQuest, a travel and event management company focused exclusively on the unique training and travel needs of athletes and their families, announced details today for one of its featured 2016 Costa Rica Triathlon Training Camps, taking place January 21-25, 2016, at The Cove at Ocotal in Guanacas...

New York, Oct 19 (EFE). - Portuguese historian Manuel Rosa, a specialist in studies about Christopher Columbus, again casts doubt on the traditional account that the great navigator was born in Italy, and says he has found convincing evidence to the contrary. In a new article published by the Legal History Review at Connecticut's Quinnipiac University, Rosa says the testament of Columbus on whi...

Rachel Brathen at the Envision Festival. Source: Instagram Envision Festival Press Release - The Envision Festival has released an awe-inspiring video recap of Envision 2015 produced by Pure Souls Media. The breathtaking video shows global revelers celebrating unity and life amidst Envision's world-class curation of over 50 musicians, art, workshops, and yoga classes all set amongst the stunni...

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Press Release – Join the MWPA and Longfellow Books to celebrate the launch of award-winning poet Jeffrey Thomson’s debut memoir Fragile (Red Mountain Press). Thomson’s poetry collection Birdwatching in Wartime won the 2010 Maine Literary Award for Poetry. When Jeffrey Thomson travels to Costa Rica first at twenty-two, he has no idea he is beginning a journe...

Source: Floyd Mayweather Instagram Havana, Oct 14 (EFE). - American retired boxer Floyd Mayweather, regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time, made a brief trip to Cuba this week and uploaded photos of the visit to social media. The images posted to his Twitter and Instagram accounts include one of Mayweather on a street in Old Havana, the city's historical center, surrounded by ...

First issue of Playboy, 1953. Wikimedia Commons International Desk, Oct 13 (EFE).- Playboy magazine says it will stop publishing pictures of completely nude women next spring. Scott Flanders, the magazine's CEO, told The New York Times of the pending change in policy, justifying it by saying that "You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it's just passé at th...