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Film Interviews Anyone who paid attention in their high school English class likely has some familiarity with “The Hero’s Journey.” It’s the template for most storytelling, wherein a hero goes on an adventure, is victorious (or sometimes fails) and comes home changed by it. But for Robert Michael Pyle, a real-life hero’s journey took place in 1995 when this accomplished lepidopterist set out on a 30-day trek through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest—also known as “the d...

For over 45 years, children from across the UK have headed to the family-run Rhos-Y-Gwaliau Outdoor Education Centre in Snowdonia, north Wales on school trips. They’ve gone gorge walking and abseiling. They’ve explored mines. Rhos-Y-Gwaliau has been seen as a haven of outdoor learning for children who otherwise might not have access to the countryside – not to mention the awe and wonder of the Welsh peaks. That is, until the pandemic hit. For the first time in over a year, schools may on...

Old, new, major, minor—here’s our city, and sometimes our state, on the screen. Photo collage: Shutterstock by Everett Collection and Featureflash Photo Agency, Seattle Met composite. A pan across lake union. Then we plunge into a tugboats engine room, where we meet the married, middle-aged couple who own it. Theyll spend the next hour and a half engaged in bouts of slapstick bickering. That’s how Seattle first hit cinema screens, in 1933, in Tugboat Annie. Its no...