This week saw the floatation of Facebook on the stock market after its owners placed a value of more than $100 billion on the social networking business. The historic debut meant over 1,000 investors in the site became instant millionaires and it indicated the phenomenal power that social media has on 21st century living. The [...]

I admit, I had been swept up by the Invisible Children bandwagon. But it didn’t happen yesterday. In fact, my first ever post in The WILD Magazine highlighted IC’s work with the African music group, The Very Best. I admired Invisible Children’s creative, albeit at times unbearably cheesy, way of producing compelling narratives that a [...]

There is no love lost between Hong Kong and their neighbours who hail from China. Popularly referred to as Mainlanders, which has since become a negative connotation in its own right, visitors from north of the Hong Kong border are often stereotypically portrayed by the media as being inherently rude and obnoxious. The aforementioned characteristics [...]

“For a man imprisoned and conditionally released, neither neighbors nor strangers nor Beijing’s officials nor courts can be trusted.” Artist, subversive dissident, and freedom fighter Ai Weiwei was released from his secret detention earlier this summer, but he is far from a free man. His conditions for release were reportedly a ban on the use [...]

Bomba Estéreo’s debut album, Blow Up, is exactly what the Colombian rockers did this year.  The troupe has been named one of the 25 Best New Bands in the World by MTV Iggy, and went on to sell out shows across the continent in their first North American tour.   Their travels were chronicled via [...]