Costa Rica

Biscayne Blvd Photos Show Immigrants and Freedom Fighters

Miami Triathlete Manuel Huerta Makes 2012 Olympic Team

Making it to the Olympics is a lofty dream for most athletes, but for Miami triathlete Manny Huerta, it's now a reality. Last Saturday, Huerta competed against 70 other athletes, including six Americans, from across the globe in the ITU World Triathlon held in San Diego, finishing in ninth to land o ... More >>

Buika at Fillmore Miami Beach May 12

Making it to the Olympics is a lofty dream for most athletes, but for Miami triathlete Manny Huerta, it's now a reality. Last Saturday, Huerta competed against 70 other athletes, including six Americans, from across the globe in the ITU World Triathlon held in San Diego, finishing in ninth to land o ... More >>

Buika's Sultry, Sexy, Raw Sound Takes Over the Fillmore Miami Beach on May 12

Buika is a sultry, sexy, raw, and impassioned vocalist who grew up on the Spanish island of Majorca with political refugee parents from Equatorial Guinea. As the biggest island in the Balearic Archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea, Majorca is something like the South Beach of Spain, a major tourist ... More >>

Online poker players want justice after feds crush $2.5 billion industry

Buika is a sultry, sexy, raw, and impassioned vocalist who grew up on the Spanish island of Majorca with political refugee parents from Equatorial Guinea. As the biggest island in the Balearic Archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea, Majorca is something like the South Beach of Spain, a major tourist ... More >>

Breakfast Beer: Not Just For Alcoholics Anymore

​The craft beer movement has produced some surprising side effects for the brewery world; suddenly blueberries, cherries and chocolate are considered hops-friendly ingredients, giving beer a whole new aisle in your local liquor store. In fact, beer is so user friendly with food these days, we are ... More >>

Pied a Terre's Rotating Chef Series Masks New Hire Mystery

Lesley ElliottFoie gras with duck confit stuffed ravioli. ​Pied a Terre at the Cadet Hotel has been left without an executive chef since the quick departure of Andrew Balick this past summer, who recently re-appeared at DiLido Beach Club at SoBe's Ritz-Carlton. Since then, owner, Dr. Vilma Biaggi ... More >>

This Week in Coke, Castro, and LeBron: DC Kids Heart Coke, James Scores 43

​TWCCL is a weekly installment bringing you all the news you need on the three issues that matter most to Miamians. COCAINE: Big Bust of the Week: Three tons of cocaine, seized by a French warship off of Costa Rica. Four Washington, DC elementary students were hospitalized after ingesting ... More >>

Spilling the Beans

​TWCCL is a weekly installment bringing you all the news you need on the three issues that matter most to Miamians. COCAINE: Big Bust of the Week: Three tons of cocaine, seized by a French warship off of Costa Rica. Four Washington, DC elementary students were hospitalized after ingesting ... More >>

El Gran Inka's Javier Angeles-Beron Chews on Guinea Pig

Photo by Riki AltmanHe cooks, he manages, and he pours a mean pisco sour.​You might recall a while back we interviewed Chef Christopher Cramer at Panorama about Peruvian cuisine and, for an Irishman, he did seem to know a lot about it. But this time we wanted to chat with the genuine article, Lima ... More >>

South Florida-based Ponzi scheme dupes investors out of Costa Rican real estate

Photo by Riki AltmanHe cooks, he manages, and he pours a mean pisco sour.​You might recall a while back we interviewed Chef Christopher Cramer at Panorama about Peruvian cuisine and, for an Irishman, he did seem to know a lot about it. But this time we wanted to chat with the genuine article, Lima ... More >>

A Costa Rica Land Grab Smells Like a $50 Million Ponzi Scheme

Photo from Paragon's website, paracr.com.How come Bill Gale didn't want to talk to a New Times reporter?In 2005, Dallas resident Richard Silverman returned from vacation in Costa Rica convinced the Central American paradise was a perfect spot for a second home. So after searching online, Silverman ... More >>

Oil Spill Reactions From Miami Seafood Chefs and Owners

via U.S. Coast Guard​A shark can smell a single drop of blood in one million drops of water.Twenty-nine days later, and oil continues to flow from a hole 5,000 feet below the ocean's surface. BP's actions continue to threaten the Gulf and maybe the Atlantic's commercial fishing industry. Today, th ... More >>

Pura Vida: Frozen Bowls of Açaí Berry Goodness

Photo by Beth Swanson​Pura Vida, located on the corner of Washington Ave and First Street in South Beach, adds a little tropical flair to healthy eating. The laid back ambiance of the place is well represented by the name, Pura Vida or pure life, which is the philosophy of Costa Rica that reminds ... More >>

Karelle Levy on Tonight's Krelwear Reopening and Her Upcoming Solo Exhibit

​Fresh off a fashion show in Costa Rica, designer and artist Karelle Levy spoke with us about her Krelwear boutique that reopens tonight and her solo exhibit at the David Castillo Gallery next week. Her fashions are silhouette-skimming, "toobular" knits cropped for Miami's oppressive heat. The see ... More >>

Letters from the issue of December 17, 2009

​Fresh off a fashion show in Costa Rica, designer and artist Karelle Levy spoke with us about her Krelwear boutique that reopens tonight and her solo exhibit at the David Castillo Gallery next week. Her fashions are silhouette-skimming, "toobular" knits cropped for Miami's oppressive heat. The see ... More >>

Miami Music Festival Previews: Liset Alea, Feneiva, The Monas

Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these funky-named places you've never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Oth ... More >>

Silver-Screen Surfing? Rad.

Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these funky-named places you've never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Oth ... More >>

Team USA Volleyball Roughs Up Costa Rica in Straight Sets

One of the many USA kill shots.Costa Rica is known for its beautiful scenery, coffee beans, and -- now -- for not practicing enough volleyball. A sparse crowd at the BankUnited Center watched the second-ranked United States team dismantle Costa Rica Friday night in the 2009 Women's Volleyball ... More >>

Throwback Tuesdays: Manu Chao "Desaparecido"

When Manu Chao released his landmark album, Clandestino, in 1998, it was regarded as an instant classic by most people who heard it. The 16-track disc was a funky underground pop album aimed right at the cultural left (and bourgeois right) of Spain, France, South America and Mexico all at once. Be ... More >>

Surfer-Girl Songwriter Deblois Plays a Sunset Show at the News Lounge

She's packing up and taking her campfire groove to Tinseltown.

Culinary Travels in Costa Rica: Part 3

I'm going to wrap up this short little porthole into Costa Rican cuisine talking a little bit about everything -- probably in a very rambling, tangential sort of way. Just a fair warning. Native fruit is definitely one of the more unique aspects of eating in Costa Rica. You've got your average tr ... More >>

Culinary Travels in Costa Rica: Part 2

One of Costa Rica's many beach-side sodas, shaded from the hot coastal sun by an umbrella of tall trees. Yesterday I talked a little bit about Costa Rica's plato tipical, casado - and more specifically, rice and beans. Now, when you're producing rice and beans in such quantities as to make it the c ... More >>

Mar-a-Lago Hosts Rich Developers

If you got it, flaunt it!

Culinary Travels in Costa Rica: Part 1

A view of Volcan Arenal from a hiking trail that traverses old lava flow from its 1992 eruption. Arenal is the third most active volcano in the world. We hiked through rainforests and gasped at volcanoes, lounged on white sand beaches and wound our way around perilous mountain passes. Oh yes, we al ... More >>

Art Capsules

A view of Volcan Arenal from a hiking trail that traverses old lava flow from its 1992 eruption. Arenal is the third most active volcano in the world. We hiked through rainforests and gasped at volcanoes, lounged on white sand beaches and wound our way around perilous mountain passes. Oh yes, we al ... More >>

Art Capsules

A view of Volcan Arenal from a hiking trail that traverses old lava flow from its 1992 eruption. Arenal is the third most active volcano in the world. We hiked through rainforests and gasped at volcanoes, lounged on white sand beaches and wound our way around perilous mountain passes. Oh yes, we al ... More >>

Art Capsules

A view of Volcan Arenal from a hiking trail that traverses old lava flow from its 1992 eruption. Arenal is the third most active volcano in the world. We hiked through rainforests and gasped at volcanoes, lounged on white sand beaches and wound our way around perilous mountain passes. Oh yes, we al ... More >>

Last Minute Stocking Stuffer: Lizano Hot Sauce

A view of Volcan Arenal from a hiking trail that traverses old lava flow from its 1992 eruption. Arenal is the third most active volcano in the world. We hiked through rainforests and gasped at volcanoes, lounged on white sand beaches and wound our way around perilous mountain passes. Oh yes, we al ... More >>

The View from the Top

A view of Volcan Arenal from a hiking trail that traverses old lava flow from its 1992 eruption. Arenal is the third most active volcano in the world. We hiked through rainforests and gasped at volcanoes, lounged on white sand beaches and wound our way around perilous mountain passes. Oh yes, we al ... More >>

A Swan's Song

Aymee Nuviola's distinctive voice wasn't always a point of pride

Entertaining in Any Language

Aymee Nuviola's distinctive voice wasn't always a point of pride

The Raddest Day of the Year

Duuuude, it’s time to hit the boards

Contemporary Creations

Arteamericas reveals the best of Latin America

Local Boy Makes Food

This Miami Beach hippie is not like the others

Rough Love

Kids from South Florida and beyond are sent to Jamaica to straighten up. Or else.

BEST LOCAL LATIN SINGER

Aymee Nuviola

City Views and Latin News

A Miami artist's singular vision and the collective vision of Arte Américas

The Good, the Bad, and the Latin

Film festival projects works from around the world

All Around the Neighborhood

A quick look at our amigos from Toronto to Tierra del Fuego

BEST CUBAN SANDWICH

Sarussi Cafeteria

Hope on the Half-Shell

Note to self: Help save sea turtles while watching them hatch!

Best Nicaraguan Restaurant

Madroño Restaurant

Cyber Stakes

South Florida is at the heart of the Internet gambling boom -- and of the war to stop it

Future Imperfect

South Florida is at the heart of the Internet gambling boom -- and of the war to stop it

Good Season

South Florida is at the heart of the Internet gambling boom -- and of the war to stop it

A Sea of Trouble

For 66 days Bill and Simonne Butler drifted together on a tiny raft in the Pacific. After they were finally rescued and came back to Miami, they drifted apart.

Swelter

For 66 days Bill and Simonne Butler drifted together on a tiny raft in the Pacific. After they were finally rescued and came back to Miami, they drifted apart.

Holy Ship

For 66 days Bill and Simonne Butler drifted together on a tiny raft in the Pacific. After they were finally rescued and came back to Miami, they drifted apart.

Surfin' Safari

For 66 days Bill and Simonne Butler drifted together on a tiny raft in the Pacific. After they were finally rescued and came back to Miami, they drifted apart.