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The Chicago Cubs and the ‘rooftop wars’

The United States professional baseball league (MLB) was suspended for three months between May and July 2020, at the worst point of the pandemic. When it finally resumed, it did so behind closed doors or with very restricted access. For the first time in many years, stars of the sport such as Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels and Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers had to celebrate their victories in front of empty stands.

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Fans watch a Cubs game from the rooftops across the street from Wrigley Field.
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Cocaine, bikers and aliens: The film that saved David Bowie at his lowest point

In the early days of 1975, David Bowie was a broken toy. Holed up in his grotesque Los Angeles mansion, the British musician spent his days reading obscure essays on Nazi esotericism, watching television sprawled across a wide Victorian four‑poster, and performing black‑magic rituals inspired by his new hero, the crackpot charlatan Aleister Crowley.

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One of the posters used to promote 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' (1976).
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