Growing up in a heavily populated suburb close to New York City, the most outdoor activity I was exposed to were trips to the crowded playground and sprinting across the potholed street to the bagel store. So when I up and moved to New Mexico this past summer, the sheer vastness of unpopulated land and […]

In “The Revenant,” which is now in theatres, Leonardo de Caprio portrays mountain man Hugh Glass who was a real trapper in the early 1800s in the Western United States. The movie is spectacular and has already been nominated for a variety of Oscars including Best Actor and Best Cinematography. But how much of it […]