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

‘It was triggered by a Fellini-esque woman who pulled a knife on someone’: how the Only Ones made Another Girl, Another Planet

‘It wasn’t a hit at the time, but when it was later used in an advert, I got paid 100 grand. I was still using drugs and the money was gone in a year’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 knife on another girl who was there. I was fascinated by her, not in a romantic way, but to observe, as a curiosity

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 of 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 committed. One shares a link to a home for sale, noting the “incredible vandalism” of a whitewash renovation. “I got three photos in and had to stop,” one of 80 incensed replies reads

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 this week on a proposal to avoid a conflict between the private interests of trustees who own seats and the RAH’s charitable status. The move has the support of the Charity Commission.Robin Hodgson, who is tabling the amendment to the Royal Albert Hall bill, said the trustees were planning to “take more powers to themselves”, potentially creating “nice little earners” by selling unwanted seats on commercial events sites such as Viagogo.The potential conflict of interest lies in the composition of the RAH’s council of trustees and the increasing practice of seat-holders – individuals and bodies that own 1,268 of the venue’s 5,272 seats – selling their tickets at inflated prices

Elizabeth Cameron Dalman at 91: ‘In dance we are ageless’

With a career spanning more than six decades, the pioneering co-founder of Australian Dance Theatre is still dancing – just don’t ask about the age thingAt 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 contemporary dance pioneer in Australia, Dalman has just seen the final performance of one of her “great inspirations” and occasional collaborators, dancer Eileen Kramer, in a filmed component of the dance work Afterworld, part of Sydney festival. Kramer died in November at 110. “I’m going to live to that age,” Dalman chuckles

Inside the 100-year fight to get a Black revolutionary pardoned

Joe Biden’s pardon of Marcus Garvey capped a decades-long campaign to restore the reputation of one of the most significant Black leaders of the 20th centuryThe Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.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, would soon be posthumously pardoned for mail fraud