Fever

When I went to live in Barcelona at the age of 20 in 1975, I thought I would get to see loads of opera. The first ticket I bought was for Puccini’s La Bohème at the Liceu, starring Montserrat Caballé as Mimi. When I found my seat, however, I discovered that I had no view at all of the stage. Standing up would not help, because there was not even enough headroom to stand.I grew sad when the music began, in the sure knowledge that the stage must be bathed in beautiful light and the costumes must be gorgeous and the set…

There’s an eerie closeup in Summit Fever of hair rising on the wrist of lead character Michael (Freddie Thorp), prior to a lightning strike. Julian Gilbey’s mountaineering drama isn’t just visually resplendent, it also has an impressive tactile familiarity with its milieu – placing its actors on real rock faces on the Eiger, Matterhorn and Mont Blanc mountains – that results in super-authentic climbing sequences (at least to this non-climber). Too bad then that it fumbles its dramatic handholds with a risible sub-Point…

With the onset of winter, COVID cases are on the rise in the…

A star pitcher is resurrected from the Hall of Flame. A Hellmouth swallows the state of Utah. Crows descend on Tastykake Stadium, pecking slugger Jessica Telephone out of a peanut shell. This is Blaseball, the absurdist baseball simulator that captured the most delightfully wacky corners of the internet when it launched in summer 2020. Developed by indie studio The Game Band, Blaseball arrived at a moment of global isolation and fear. So, naturally, swaths of extremely online gamers with lots of anxiety and too much…

The Trouble With FeverIn the 22 years since her debut, Michelle Branch has lived many lives, from teen pop sensation to Grammy-winning collaborator to country singer with the Wreckers. Earlier this year, Branch made headlines after she tweeted accusations of infidelity towards her husband, the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney; she was arrested the same day after allegedly slapping him. All charges were dropped and Branch filed for divorce – a filing that was later suspended by the couple.The Trouble With Fever, Branch’s fifth…

An example of monkeypox rashes. Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)A 36-year-old man in Italy appears to be uniquely unlucky, after he was hospitalized and diagnosed with covid-19, monkeypox, and HIV over a span of a single week in July. Thankfully, his covid and monkeypox co-infections did successfully clear up without issue, and he has since been placed on HIV treatment.His doctors describe this unfortunate medical tale in a case report published last week in the Journal of Infection. According to the report, the man…

Two-thirds in to American Fever, Hira, the 16-year-old protagonist, and her friend Zahra – both on study exchange schemes from Pakistan – are discussing “Americanness” and American culture. Hira’s host family are white, and based in Lakeview, Oregon, while Zahra is living with a Pakistani family in New Jersey, prompting them to debate the “authenticity” of their experiences. When Hira argues that there is value in living with people different from you, Zahra shrugs, “As long as they’re not the white kids at school, whose…

NEW DELHI : With more than 100 cases of Tomato Flu reported in younger children below 9 years of age in India from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Odisha, the union health ministry has issued…

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