Columnist Michael Patrick Shiels took his mother Gladys to Puerto Rica's Royal Sonesta San Juan for a vacation recently.

Decades after his father modernized the Olympics, Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. is running for IOC president and aiming to adapt the Games to a new landscape.

What Music is”– now there’s an odd title for a concert. Or an odd way to pose a question I wouldn’t usually ask of a performance. It made me stop and wonder. Well, the San Juan Symphony took a ...