Love in the Time of Cholera

Funny when it’s supposed to be serious and awkward when it’s supposed to be romantic, every twist in this Gabriel García Márquez adaptation is a near miss, except for the performance of Javier Bardem.

"...fiction (Florentino Ariza in Love in the Time of Cholera) and one of the most violently sociopathic (Chigurh in..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Horseman on the Roof

The film captures the heroic exploits of an Italian resistance soldier who falls in love with a French noblewoman during the French cholera plague of the early 19th century.

"...meets a French noblewoman during the spread of the cholera epidemic in early 19th-century France. An adaptation of the..."

May 31, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Return to the Blue Lagoon

"...her baby daughter on board, and an outbreak of cholera among the crew requiring that the young mother and..."

Aug. 9, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Can Architecture Provide a Blueprint for Our Post-COVID Existence?

Forge Craft Architecture's COVID Companion is a field guide to the world of the Aftertimes

"...all trace back to efforts to stop the devastating cholera outbreaks in the 19th century. In the 20th century,..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Gwen

Folk-horror finds terror in the remoteness of pre-industrial Wales

"...comes back as a hero in arms. But there's cholera in the village, and the local slate quarry is..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

News of the Day: 11/17/10

Welcome to our new collection of news stories

"...-The violence in Haiti is not helping the cholera epidemic...."

Nov. 17, 2010 News Post by Eric Pickhartz

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

What to expect in 2008: a great earthquake, a pole shift, many months of darkness, Princess Diana's ghost, and much more

"...During the 19th century cholera epidemic, death rates at the London Homeopathic Hospital were..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

The Painted Veil

Set in China and starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Liev Schreiber, this melodic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel is the story of many things – but it is most of all the story of a marriage.

"...a village on the Yangtze that is overrun with cholera and needs a new doctor. With death and rebellion..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

To Your Health

How do I find out if I have 'leaky gut syndrome,' and how is it treated?

"...derived from the organism that produces the deadly disease cholera. Zonulin damages the tiny places in the gut wall..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Column by James Heffley, Ph.D.

Serendipity

"...a worn copy of Love in the Time of Cholera with the intention of selling it the next day..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin at Large: Neither Slumber Nor Sleep

We will be othered, threatened, vilified, even fired upon. We must not let it stop us.

"...own prison), and told them to stem a raging cholera epidemic. They failed, and he died, and after that..."

May 27, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Tiki Tatsu-ya Raises the Bar to Islander Heaven

The Aikawa Brothers debut a worldclass venue of storied wonders

"...comes to mind is Love in the Time of Cholera. You know? Halfway through, it was kind of Love..."

Oct. 4, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...ethnicities. The Black Death led to anti-Semitism in Europe, cholera in the U.S. was blamed on Irish Catholics, and..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Ellen Troxclair: Bye, Bye, Bye

Outgoing CM shows why she won't be missed

"...which is about as popular at City Hall as cholera at this point, has fought the city's procurement processes..."

Nov. 9, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

SXSW Film Review: Learning to See

Photographer captures unrecorded insects of the Amazon

"...Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera and decided to travel to Colombia and then, amid..."

March 13, 2016 Screens Post by Joe O'Connell

The Archive of the Patriarch

Ransom Center acquires Gabriel García Márquez papers

"...a Death Foretold, and Love in the Time of Cholera, among other works, left behind more than five decades..."

Nov. 25, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

What is Proper Nang? Austin’s Teen Beat

The next generation weighs in on what’s hip in the ATX

"...Lost Tales of Nostradamus, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Mortal Instruments, The Secret Life of Bees, The..."

Aug. 6, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

‘Doctor Who’ Watch

7.3: "A Town Called Mercy"

"...a part of the Mercy community, single-handedly averting a cholera outbreak. But the town’s willing to turn on him..."

Sept. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar expounds on little ranches and dandies

"...not the kind of village with mud huts and cholera, either. Never one to play helpless, I've learned that..."

Dec. 2, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Daniel Catán

Renowned opera composer dies while in residence at the Butler School of Music

"...Gabriel García Márquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera and the first Spanish-language opera ever commissioned by major..."

April 22, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...Facebook is worst than love in the times of cholera. Cast: Ariel Levy, Lucy Cominetti, Andrea Velasco, Paz Bascuñan,..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Die Antwoord

"...new strain of ghetto fabulous, more viral than a cholera outbreak. The band's Interscope debut, $O$, siphons waste-product off..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Music Review by Austin Powell

Soccer Watch

Aztex bow out of playoffs, and more

"...and Democratic Republic of Congo were threatened by a cholera epidemic; Nigeria was banned from international play by the..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

Luv Doc Recommends: 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival

Waterloo Park, Sunday, August 29, 2010

"...more of a sticky wicket. It contained things like cholera, intestinal parasites, Comanche poop from up river, and water..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Conversation on Open Meetings Act Is a Good Thing

"...sea, when one also has a severe case of cholera … during a tropical heat wave. In short, elected..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Postmarks

Luv Doc Recommends: Extravagasm Fantasy Ball

Mixx, Friday, October 23, 2009

"...of the desert southwest: smallpox, measles, whooping cough, and cholera to name a few. They also brought along their..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Another Shadow-Day Knight

The Harry Ransom Center uncasks the curious life and works of Edgar Allan Poe

"...or about to die of tuberculosis or syphilis or cholera or extreme delirium tremens or whatever it was –..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...ages between poodley-pinks. The Mayans/Aztecs/Incas endured this? Crawling along cholera-dusted floorboards, I exhumed my The Library of Congress Presents:..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

On Tap: Horns, Olympics, WC, EPL

Longhorns soccer season begins, Stoke City loses first-ever EPL game, and more

"...called Napoli "the sewer of Italy"; others read, "Ciao cholera sufferers" and "Neapolitans have tuberculosis." Meanwhile, divorce may be..."

Aug. 20, 2008 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

High Density Development Can Be Dangerous

"...for this with a backed-up sewer system, water-main breaks, cholera, dysentery, and gas leaks and explosions...."

June 1, 2007 Postmarks

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