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‘We won’t come again’: dazed visitors fed up with overcrowded Louvre
As the crowds poured out of the Louvre, the look of dazed exhaustion on many faces confirmed what
the museum’s director had warned last week
: a trip to Paris’s biggest cultural attraction has become a “physical ordeal”.Myriam, 65, a former secondary school science teacher had driven …
What is gleeking and why is the saliva-ejecting craze blowing up on TikTok?
Caitlin,
I’m here to ask you about gleeking. I’ve never heard of it. Can you explain it to me?
Consider yourself blessed. I’m sorry to say gleeking has nothing to do with the hit early 2000s musical comedy TV series Glee. It’s much more disgusting.
Basically, gleeking has been …
Eurosport’s end of an era in Britain casts doubts on future free-to-air coverage
Eurosport is to disappear from British screens, with the longtime home of events such as the Tour de France rebranding after 35 years.
On 28 February, Eurosport 1 and 2 will be merged into TNT Sports, as the group owned by Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) reorganises its offering in the …
‘It was triggered by a Fellini-esque woman who pulled a knife on someone’: how the Only Ones made Another Girl, Another Planet
Peter Perrett
(songwriter, vocals, guitar)
This song was triggered by meeting someone who had started hanging around our rehearsal rooms in King’s Cross, London. She was very Felliniesque and looked as if she had stepped out of 8 ½. She was an extremely eccentric character and one day she pulled …
A wholesome escape from the housing crisis: the Facebook group dedicated to retro Australian homes
There is one thing that unites the members of my favourite Facebook group: a shared hatred for white paint.
In the comments, people moan about mid-century homes being visited by “the white fairy”. Some discuss whether it’s possible to undo the horrors previous owners have wrought. One shares the link …
Stop wealthy seat-holders’ big profits from reselling at Royal Albert Hall, peer says
A potential conflict of interest in the way the Royal Albert Hall is governed will allow wealthy individuals and companies to increase their opportunities to make big profits from seats they own at the charitable venue, according to a member of the House of Lords.
Peers are expected to vote …
Elizabeth Cameron Dalman at 91: ‘In dance we are ageless’
At 91, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman dances in nature at her bushland retreat outside Canberra, Mirramu Creative Arts Centre, surrounded by writers, singers and visual artists stoking their respective muses. “So many people bring up this age thing,” she says, “and my reply is that in dance we are ageless.”
A …
Inside the 100-year fight to get a Black revolutionary pardoned
In the days before President Joe Biden’s final moments in office, Justin Hansford, a Howard University law professor, received a call from a White House staffer. They told Hansford that Marcus Garvey, the revolutionary Jamaican leader who pushed for the unity of Black people and a collective return to Africa, …
New accents: the company reshaping Brazilian film by showing ‘ordinary’ life
After arriving late several times at work, a librarian is dismissed from his school. The HR employee tasked with presenting the bad news offers him a lift, their conversation deepens and by the end of the night they discover they have a lot in common – including a shared history …