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		<title>The art of urban appreciation: a new San José</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Downtown San José, Costa Rica, the city tourists love to hate, is on the upswing. Beautiful historic buildings like the Atlantic Train Station are being renovated, a new commuter train line is fully operational, art festivals abound, and even the graffiti seems to be improving in quality. The city has brought back its Saturday “Love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neotropica: new Costa Rican magazine seeks writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neotropica is not your average Costa Rica travel magazine. The beautifully designed first issue, titled “Imagined Geographies of Paradise,” is a headlong plunge into history, myth, and culture.]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday in Alajuela: jazz and wild art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going to be in Alajuela (Costa Rica) this Sunday? At noon at Vista del Valle Plantation Inn there will be jazz and an auction of Michael Cranford&#8217;s paintings. Mike is the treehouse-building, RainForest Aid-producing dynamo from the Osa Peninsula. That same night at the Inn, there&#8217;s a presentation about the environmental crisis surrounding the Osa&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My new agouti: woodcarving in the Solentiname Islands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the artisan cooperative on San Fernando Island, I fell in love with a pint-sized agouti. An oversized rodent that also goes by the names tepesquintle and guardatinaja, the agouti is cuter than its bloodline implies. I liked the paintings, was intrigued by the painted birds and turtles, but the unpainted agouti, of cedar (not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3000 wooden birds a month in Solentiname</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I wrote about radical poet-priest Ernesto Cardinal coming to the remote Solentiname Islands in the 1970s and fostering a climate of political activism and creativity that still endures today.  I posted the oil-on-canvas paintings of the islands in that last post. The islands are also known for their wood carvings. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The naive paintings of Nicaragua&#8217;s Solentiname Islands</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1976 Sandinista poet-priest Ernesto Cardinal came to the remote Solentiname islands in southern Nicaragua. He found a naturally artistic people who weren&#8217;t  expressing their creativity, and a devout people who&#8217;d never thought Catholicism could speak directly to the conditions of their daily lives. &#8220;Before he came,&#8221; said Esparanza Guevara, who showed me around the [...]]]></description>
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