Having concluded its eight-month “La Calaca” tour last month, Nicaragua’s funky-jazzy-electro-chichero music sensation known as “Momotombo” is starting a new tour to promote their forthcoming third disc. The concert tour kicks off Thursday May 16 at Managua’s Uruk Kalli bar...

Most university students right now are enjoying their summer break. Those who recently graduated are probably out looking for jobs, if they haven’t found one already.  But a group of students from Brigham Young University are on a different mission...

Silvio Sirias was 11 when his family moved to Nicaragua. Born to Granadinos living in Los Angeles, the would-be writer was uprooted and transplanted to the Gran Sultana, which he immediately adopted as his new hometown. In California, Sirias had...

Nicaragua’s funky-jazzy-electro-chichero music sensation, Momotombo, will be wrapping up its eight-month “La Calaca” tour this Friday, April 19, with a concert extravaganza in Managua’s Alianza Francesa. Accompanied by VJ Israel Lewites, who puts on a spectacular audiovisual show during the...

Hello y’all! The time is here for another fun night of music at The Garden Cafe.  We are happy to have The Rusty Pistols back for another great performance, this time with additional friends and musical guests.  Expect the groove...

In what is arguably Nicaragua’s most entertaining religious celebration of the year, hundreds of devout Catholics dressed up their dogs in colorful costumes this morning and brought them to the Magdalena Church in Monimbó to honor Saint Lazarus, whom Jesus...

Thanks to a generous donation by Chuck and Shirley Schmidt, the work titled “Journey through time” (2012), a large, 35×62 mixed acrylic and texture work on canvas by Granada-born artist Eduardo Arias, will now be on display at “Mi Museo.” ...

(posted Feb. 20, 12:00 p.m.)- The Internet sensation known as the Harlem Shake has arrived in Nicaragua, spawning at least five different versions uploaded to YouTube in the past week. The Internet fad, which has gone viral around the world...

Drive 6.6 kilometers south of San Juan del Sur, through a jungle of howler monkeys and over multiple dried river crossings, and you will arrive at a 3 km-long gorgeous, sandy white beach that produces enough variety of right and...

It exists. In painting and sculpture, there is such a thing as visual rhyme and it refers to the repetition of patterns or forms, alliteration of color, movement and subject matter. An upcoming art fair in Granada that will coincide...