Photo by Rafael Mantesso By Carol Blair Vaughn American mega-corporation TARGET has always had its bull terrier mascot named “Bullseye”, but now the upscale footwear brand Jimmy Choo has a rival bull terrier, named – wait for it – Jimmy Choo. Jimmy Choo (The Dog) belongs to Brazilian photographer and artist Rafael Mantesso, and Mantesso and the dog have a new book coming out in October t...

Source; Karolina Brenes Facebook Karolina Brenes, a shapely lingerie model from Costa Rica, recently posted a Facebook update explaining that she was not aware of the existence of a second intimate video was extracted from a stolen smartphone and shared across online social networks.   As previously reported by The Costa Rica Star in late September, Ms. Brenes addressed her Facebook...

"Rolling Stones 26" by Gorupdebesanez - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons Havana, Oct 5 (EFE).- Cubans were astonished this weekend to see Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger strolling through the historic center of Havana, where he is on a private trip with one of his children, official media reported Monday. The British rock icon visited the Hotel Santa Isabel in the Old H...

British actor Daniel Craig performs during the shooting of the 24th James Bond movie 'Spectre' in Rome, Italy. EFE By Paula Escalada Medrano Mexico City, Oct 5 (EFE).- As the premiere of "Spectre," the latest James Bond film, approaches, members of the cast said in an interview with EFE that the movie was a career milestone and a dream come true. "Bond is in a world of its own. It has tr...

Miami, Oct 3 (EFE).- American actor and rapper Will Smith sings again, this time doing a remix of his number "Fiesta" with the Colombian band Bomba Estereo. Missing from the music world for 10 years, Smith returns with the Colombian band doing an upbeat fusion of electro-tropical sound and rap that reflects "the impact of Latin rhythms" on the international scene. "Having a personality like ...

Viaje ORANJESTAD, Aruba, Sept. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The island of Aruba will once again host filmmakers and film enthusiasts from around the world during the fifth annual Aruba International Film Festival (AIFF), Oct. 7-11. Kicking off with a short film and Q&A session with actor Tyrese Gibson (from the Fast & Furious and Transformers franchises) and sponsored by the Aruba Tourism ...

Miss Costa Rica 2015 Brenda Castro Brenda Castro, a stunning Caribbean woman who was crowned Miss Costa Rica earlier this year, will represent our country at the next Miss Universe pageant. Such was the announcement made during last night's broadcast of 7 Estrellas, an entertainment news magazine produced by national television network Teletica. As previously reported by The Costa Rica Star...

Wikimedia Commons Dublin, Sep 29 (EFE).- Liquor giant Brown-Forman Corporation, the maker of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, held the ground-breaking ceremony on Tuesday for its distillery at Ireland's historic Slane Castle, the company's first new whiskey distillery outside the United States. The Louisville, Kentucky-based company said it planned to invest 44 million euros ($50 million) i...

University of Nebraska Press By Carol Blair Vaughn It’s not often in this era of greed and recklessness that a New Age David and Goliath story unfolds, and there is an author onsite to capture the moment. Such is the story of Jeremy Evans' new book, The Battle for Paradise: Surfing, Tuna, and One Town’s Quest to Save a Wave (University of Nebraska Press), which comes out on Oct. 1, 2015, an...

Rio de Janeiro, Sep 28 (EFE).- One of Rihanna's bodyguards started throwing punches at photographers in Rio de Janeiro this Sunday as the Barbadian songstress was leaving a restaurant, local media reported while airing a video of the brawl. The bodyguard's fists started flying when he found a crowd of paparazzi milling around the door to the restaurant where Rihanna had dined. The photograph...

Souce: Lionsgate By Antonio Martin Guirado Los Angeles, Sep 26 (EFE).- Benicio Del Toro is again riding the crest of the Hollywood wave thanks to his memorable performance in "Sicario," a film about the war on drugs that places him squarely in the race for an Oscar and for which a sequel is already in the works, though the film itself has had only a limited premiere in the United States. ...

Source: Saatchi Art COSTA RICA, ZEPHYR PALACE (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 -- Without a doubt, the work of Marco Battaglini (Verona, Italy, 1969) echoes the anxiety inherent in Western society during the 21st century. This artist’s work confronts us with an esthetic shock, a style charged with eclecticism and a touch of humor that brings a smile to the spectator’s face while begging questions abou...

Source: Univision Miami, Sep 20 (EFE).- With tears in his eyes, iconic television host Don Francisco bade farewell on the weekend to the program "Sabado Gigante" after 53 years on the air, a broadcasting run that turned it into a world TV landmark. In his last appearance before the cameras on the extraordinarily popular program, the 75-year-old Chilean received the prerecorded congratulatio...

Flickr Commons By Cristina Terceiro Buenos Aires, Sep 21 (EFE).- Girls in the 5-13 age group are increasingly inviting friends to parties at spas, a booming fad in Argentina that child psychologists warn can lead to the "early sexualization" of young females. Spa time in special rooms or at girls' homes features makeup and hair styling, massages, manicures and pedicures, and fashion show...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Yaveo is throwing its first-ever virtual film festival to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. The Spanish-language streaming entertainment service is a premier sponsor of the 2015 Cine+Mas San Francisco Latino Film Festival. Yaveo will show its support of Latino cinema in 2 more ways. A virtual film festival will run on the Yaveo streaming servi...

"Flickr Whitney Houston performing on GMA 2009 7" by Asterio Tecson - Flickr: Whitney Houston - Central Park, NYC September 1, 2009. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Los Angeles, Sep 17 (EFE).- Singer Whitney Houston, who died in February 2012, will "give" a concert next year in the form of a hologram, the Billboard entertainment Web site announced. The hologram of the cele...

Wikimedia Commons Los Angeles, Sep 16 (EFE).- The Mexican rock group Mana on Wednesday called on undocumented immigrants to unite to fight for immigration reform and to halt the avalanche of Republican attacks. During their participation in an event in Los Angeles to motivate the Latino community to vote in the 2016 presidential election, the band exhorted Latinos to go to the polls and sup...

Source: Saban C21 Media Press Release -- Saban Brands’ TV series such as “Power Rangers”, “VR TRoopers” and “Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation” is heading to subscription video on demand (SVOD) service in Middle East, South East Europe, Africa and Latin America through Vubiquity. Saban Brands struck a deal with the content service to make subscription box-sets available for: Qatar, UAE, Sout...

John Lennon's statue in Costa Rica. Wikimedia Commons New York, Sep 14 (EFE).- Yoko Ono is planning to celebrate what would have been John Lennon's 75th birthday by organizing in Central Park a huge human peace sign, assembling between 6,000 and 10,000 people to take part in the project and thereby setting a Guinness World Record. "You don't have to do much. Power works in mysterious ways V...

A wooden wedding bed carved with 138 figures from the Kama Sutra and a murder weapon shaped like a penis from the Stanley Kubrik film "A Clockwork Orange" are some of the pieces on show at the World Erotic Art Museum, or WEAM, the second-largest of its kind in the world, in Miami Beach. The museum has more than 4,000 erotic objects and artworks by such iconic artists as Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso...

"Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Yahoo 2006" by Kevin Ballard - http://flickr.com/photos/eridius/116003811/in/set-72057594087529032/. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons Bogota, Sep 12 (EFE).- At least two people died and one was injured when a plane carrying members of a movie crew working on Tom Cruise's upcoming thriller film "Mena" crashed in northwestern Colombia, local media reported. Th...

Source: Usher Instagram Havana, Sep 10 (EFE).- U.S. music producer, singer and songwriter Usher puffed cigars and enjoyed Cuban coffee in Havana along with rapper Ludacris, according to photographs published Thursday on the pair's official social network accounts. The member of the popular U.S. television program "The Voice" announced his presence in the Cuban capital with a photo showing h...

Bogota, Sep 7 (EFE; additional reporting by the Costa Rica Star).- A joint operation conducted by police in Colombia and Mexico resulted in the seizure of two tons of cocaine hidden in a shipment of toner for printers and photocopiers, but no arrests were made, Colombian National Police chief Gen. Rodolfo Palomino said Monday. Police seized 1,070 kilos of cocaine in the cargo terminal at Bogota...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Sep 5 (EFE).- Aretha Franklin stopped the screening Friday night of the documentary "Amazing Grace" at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado after a federal judge ruled in favor of the artist's suit against showing the film without her permission. Based on a question of the singer's rights, U.S. District Judge John L. Kane ruled in a court order, to which EFE...

"RaquelWelchApr2010" by Justin Hoch. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Fernando Mexia Los Angeles, Sep 4 (EFE).- Jo Raquel Tejada was born in Chicago on Sept. 5, 1940, and her Bolivian immigrant father did all he could to keep her unaware of her roots so she would fit in better with the dominant U.S. culture, though she wholeheartedly recovered her Latin heritage after becom...

Phoenixville, PA, September 03, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Watching the world go by makes Daniel the iguana very happy. In fact, he loves relaxing in the warm sunshine of his rainforest home. Some of the forest’s busier animals just don’t get it, but that’s OK with Daniel, who stars in Buffie Biddle’s first children’s book, released by Dog Ear Publishing. In the end, he teaches children that they should be...

Source: @KevinHart4Real Instagram Actor, writer and stand-up comedian Kevin Hart recently enjoyed offshore fishing, hiking, forest canopy tours, ziplines, and relaxation in Costa Rica. News of his visit to our country, which included his children, fiancee and future mother-in-law, arrived via the social network Instagram. A few Instagram photos and videos show Mr. Hart in a sports fishing c...

Melodic death metal band At the Gates is currently on the Latin American segment of a world tour in support of the album At War With Reality, which was in October 2014 after a very long hiatus. In Costa Rica, At the Gates will perform live at Pepper’s Club on Saturday, September 5th. The venue is located in the Zapote district, which is part of the eastern suburbs of San Jose.   The his...

"Frederick Forsyth - 01" by Das blaue Sofa - http://www.flickr.com/photos/das-blaue-sofa/6317965950/. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons London, Aug 30 (EFE).- Writer Frederick Forsyth, known for his spy novels, said in an article published in the Sunday Times that he worked for the British Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, for more than 20 years. Forsyth, author of bes...

Adult film actress Mia Malkova in Costa Rica. Source: Holly Randall Tumblr In March 2014, a renowned photographer and film director from the United States was plying her erotic trade in Costa Rica. Holly Randall was photographing pornographic model Mia Malkova at a waterfall, and the photographer shared her experience about working in Costa Rica on her Tumblr social media page: Finally my sho...

Source: Tina Franklin, Flickr Commons 2.0 New York, Aug 26 (EFE).- Irish-American actor Pierce Brosnan, who played James Bond in "GoldenEye" and three other installments of the iconic spy series, said in a recent interview that the possibility of a gay 007 should not be ruled out, although he believes a black Bond will come first. "Sure. Why not?" the 62-year-old Brosnan, whose last Bond fl...

Flickr Commons Stockholm, Aug 25 (EFE).- Fans of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy are eagerly awaiting the release this week of "The Girl in the Spider's Web," the fourth installment in the best-selling series. The latest book in the series, which has sold more than 80 million copies around the world, was written by David Lagercrantz, a Swedish journalist and author se...

The landscape and greenery of Ecuador Munich, 24 August 2015 — Once more, Ecuador tops the list of the best places to live abroad in the InterNations Expat Insider 2015 survey, which is with more than 14,000 respondents one of the most extensive studies ever conducted to explore the general living situation of expatriates. This year’s top ten also hold some surprises: small country Malta m...

"Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Yahoo 2006" by Kevin Ballard - http://flickr.com/photos/eridius/116003811/in/set-72057594087529032/. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons Medellin, Colombia, Aug 23 (EFE).- Hollywood star Tom Cruise met with the mayor of the northwestern Colombian city of Medellin, Anibal Gaviria, to discuss the filming of "Mena." "It was a friendly and productive meeting that l...

Wikiemedia Commons On a global level, dental tourism is an industry that produces billions of dollars each year. Costa Rica is often cited as a leading destination for dental tourism thanks to the affordability of treatments and quality of care. Marketing is one of the major aspects driving the international dental tourism industry, and one particular marketing element in this regard is the po...

Ashley Madison screensho A Spanish firm that specializes in data visualizations has produced a map that shows the concentration of Ashley Madison subscribers around the world, and at least eight municipalities in Costa Rica made the list. Ashley Madison is an infamous dating website that promotes adulterous sexual encounters among their members; in recent weeks, however, this site has been ...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Aug 19 (EFE).- Actress Yvonne Craig, who played Batgirl in the iconic 1960s television series "Batman," died from cancer, Variety reported on Wednesday. She was 78. Craig died on Monday at her home in Pacific Palisades, California, surrounded by her family. The actress, who was born on May 6, 1937, in Taylorville, Illinois, died from breast cancer that sprea...

Source: Wikimedia Commons By Carlos Meneses Sanchez Rosario Islands, Colombia, Aug 18 (EFE).- A scuba diving center in this Caribbean paradise is using an experimental therapy for people with disabilities, most of them victims of Colombia's armed conflict, who can forget about their physical limitations amid the coral. Diving Planet director Andres Obregon created this recreational scuba...

Source: Kevin Manzur for T-Mobile Los Angeles, Aug 15 (EFE).- Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira is part of the voice cast for the upcoming 2016 Disney computer-animated comedy "Zootopia," the studio said at its D23 Expo, an event for fans in Anaheim, California. Shakira will voice the part of Gazelle, a pop star in the mammal metropolis of Zootopia, where a police lieutenant bunny and a f...

Salma Hayek. Wikimedia Commons Los Angeles, Aug 15 (EFE).- Mexican actress Salma Hayek has obtained a restraining order against two female fans she says have been impersonating her and even threatened to kidnap her 7-year-old daughter, Valentina, celebrity news Web site TMZ reported.   A Los Angeles judge issued the temporary order after reviewing evidence submitted by the celebrity...