Magazine: Wild

A young American sets off into nature on a journey of self-discovey. It is much more difficult than she realised - walking for hundreds of miles, camping alone night after night in a wilderness where, if there is a problem, there is no one to save you...

It sounds like the plot of the brilliant 2007 movie, Into the Wild, but it's not. This film is about a woman, played by Reese Witherspoon, walking the 1600km from Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Coast Trail. It clearly wants to recapture the poetry of its similarly-titled predecessor, but only suffers by comparsion. It's not a bad film, but if you want to watch a film on this subject, this is not the one to see. 

Magazine: Tribute to Amy

A life-size bronze statue of the late singer Amy Winehouse has been erected in her hometown of Camden, noth London.
The piece was commissioned by Mitch Winehouse and I hope is a fitting tribute from a father to his dauther, the sculptor Scorr Eaton says. "I have immense respect to Amy as an astrist ans wish she was still making music." He said.

Magazine: Ebola paranoia

Panic about Ebola virus has been gripping America. Among the many incidents cited: a teacher in Maine was put on leave becouse she went to Dallas for a conference and stayed in a hotel exatly 15 km away from the hospital where a patient died of disease; and in Mississippi, parents took their kids out school after learning thet the principal had visited Zambia, a country more than 3000km away from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa...