Monday, April 6th, 2009
Costa Rica health authorities on Saturday ordered the cancellation of the eagerly awaited performance of legendary Mexican singer Vicente Fernández, the same night the show was set to take place.
The concert, scheduled for Ricardo Saprissa Stadium in Tibás, north of San José, lacked health and other permits, according to press reports.
A star of ranchera and mariachi music, Fernández told the daily La Nación he has never seen anything like this. “Why if the sound, the stage, the lights, everything is all ready, did they close off the stage?” he asked.
Thousands of fans waited outside the stadium hoping the doors would finally open.
The concert has been rescheduled for April 28, La Nación reported Sunday.
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Picture perfect wedding? A police officer inspects the damages caused by gunfire in the car used by AFP photographer Yuri Cortez and Al Día photographer Rolando Aviles while covering of the wedding of supermodel Gisele Bündchen and U.S. football star Tom Brady in Santa Teresa. The photographers claim that one of the newlyweds’ bodyguards shot at the photojournalists, who managed to escape unscathed.
Two photographers claim that a private security guard shot at them Saturday at the wedding of Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen and U.S. football player Tom Brady at the Costa Rican beach town of Santa Teresa on the Nicoya Peninsula. No injuries were reported.
Rolando Avilés, photographer for Costa Rican daily Al Día, told newswire EFE the incident occurred after he and photographer Yuri Cortez, of French newswire AFP, refused to hand over their photography equipment to the security guards.
Whereupon, one of the guards pulled out a gun and opened fire at the photographers’ vehicle, shattering the back window, Avilés said, adding that the bullet whizzed “by the head” of Salvadoran photojournalist Cortez. “It was really scary,” Avilés said.
According to the Al Día photographer, neither he nor Cortez had entered the property of Bündchen’s mansion, where the wedding took place, and were snapping shots from a nearby hill “outside the private property.”
The news became the buzz this weekend on celebrity blogs.
According to INF Daily, Bündchen had made an exclusive deal with a Brazilian magazine to cover the wedding, which may have prompted the guards to demand the Tico and Salvadoran photographers turn over their material. Avilés told INF he was in disbelief, saying, “ I could have lost my life for the sake of some pictures that Gisele didn’t want published. Are they insane?”
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