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Taking a hike with the past hot on her heels
Can you walk your way back to emotional health? Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspooon) gives it a try in Wild.
Divorce, disease and her own misbehavior have separated the young woman from the people who’ve been closest to her. Since…
Giant Corporations Want to Control Your Brew
The craft-brewing wave sweeping the US makes drinking beer more fun than ever. Maryland’s Flying Dog Brewery brews a beer from oysters, and the Delaware-based Dogfish Head uses an ancient beer recipe they dug up from 2,700-year-old drinking…
Icy documentary focuses on people rather than penguins
When you think of Antarctica, you probably picture ice, snow and penguins. You don’t normally think of people, other than the odd intrepid explorer driving his dogsled across a frozen landscape.
And yet a few thousand human…
Gritty Western may or may not deserve its feminist label
Frontier life was tough in the 1850s, particularly if you were a woman. That’s the prime message of The Homesman.
Winters were harsh. Crops were uncertain. Disease was rampant. Foreplay had yet to be invented.
Directed and co-…