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      <title>War of a Titian, Part the Second</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/71-war-of-a-titian-part-the-second</link>
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        <![CDATA[This month Alex Salmond flew up to Aberdeen on Remembrance Day to attend the announcement of a &pound;50m endowment from businessman Sir Ian Wood for the development of Aberdeen city centre, even though the details of the endowment were somewhat sketchy, and likely to come with strings attached. Why the short-notice trip from the First Minister? Because &pound;50m is a hell of a lot of money (s...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-12-03T14:41:25+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>RJ Thomson</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 28 November &#8211; 4 December </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/70-the-week-in-film-28-november-4-december</link>
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        <![CDATA[A brief round-up of cinematic happenings  around Scotland this coming week: 
At Edinburgh Filmhouse  there&rsquo;s a tribute to Japanese director Jun    Ichiwaka in a screening of Tony Takitani. The 2004 film is about    an unemotional loner who works as a commercial artist because he prefers    the literal to the fantastic or abstract, losing control of his emotions    when he meets and marri...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-12-01T15:14:07+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 21 &#8211; 27 November </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/69-the-week-in-film-21-27-november</link>
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        <![CDATA[This week&rsquo;s biggie is Ridley Scott&rsquo;s  Body of Lies, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Roger Ferris  (DiCaprio) uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to  be operating out of Jordan, leading to a cultural and moral clash between  Ferris and Jordanian Intelligence.
At the smaller cinemas around the country  there are a few gems to watch out for:
Edinburgh ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-11-26T14:42:56+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>Why I Got This Tattoo, Dad</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/68-why-i-got-this-tattoo-dad</link>
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        <![CDATA[I'm thirty years old and I've got a really obvious hickey on my neck and I'm hoping my dad doesn't notice when I meet him shortly. I'm behaving like a teenager, except when I was a teenager I never met Latin Americans who were into zines and revolution and subverting the binary gender system. You know, once in a while I go on Friends Reunited and see that most of the people I went to school wit...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-11-25T13:33:25+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nine</author>
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      <title>War of a Titian</title>
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        <![CDATA[As I write, the clock is ticking on the National Galleries&rsquo; bid to raise the &pound;100 million needed to keep the two paintings by Venetian old master Titian within their clutches. The paintings, created for King Philip II of Spain, were reputedly acquired by the family of the Duke of Sutherland from the Orleans collection in the murky aftermath of the French Revolution. Important, evide...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-11-24T14:50:13+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Rosamund West</author>
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      <title>A theatrical Christmas</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/66-a-theatrical-christmas</link>
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        <![CDATA[The Skinny doesn&rsquo;t sleep over Christmas. While the sensible world tucks into mince-pies, chortles at faded celebrities and shouts at the baddies in pantomimes, our writers have been out in the cold, seeking the difficult and complex, checking up on the avant-garde and patrolling venues' seriousness. Yet the spirit of goodwill cannot be halted: those same Live Artists who terrified us in t...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-11-21T13:17:01+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth K Vile</author>
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      <title>Movie stars, Hollyoaks babes and fighting champs get in on the game</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/65-movie-stars-hollyoaks-babes-and-fighting-champs-get-in-on-the-game</link>
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        <![CDATA[Occassionally, video games feature a top notch actor or two -- folks willing to lend their gravitas to a pixelated role or vocal performance. Never before though, have so many 'stars' graced a game as the new Command &amp; Conquer Red Alert 3 title hitting shelves this week ('cept Vice City, maybe? - ed).Whilst none of these are quite as cool as having Liam Neeson as your dad (Fallout 3), this ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-11-14T13:18:20+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Josh Wilson</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 14 &#8211; 20 November </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/64-the-week-in-film-14-20-november</link>
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        <![CDATA[With Bond still leading the pack at the  box office his competitors are avoiding the multiplex for the moment.  Probably the biggest release of the week (besides Max Payne) is the new Kevin Smith film  Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks,  two friends decide to solve cash-low problems my making an adult movie  together.


 Film Trailers by Filmtrailer.com
&nb...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-11-14T13:01:08+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 31 October &#8211; 7 November </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/63-the-week-in-film-31-october-7-november</link>
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        <![CDATA[Bond is most definitely back this week,  still minus Q and Miss Moneypenny and full of grit and grimaces. With  the trademark humour gone this is basically Bourne...again.
Edinburgh Filmhouse 
Halloween hits the Filmhouse on Friday  with a double bill of late night screenings coinciding with their Africa  in Motion festival. Highway to the Grave considers the symbiotic relationship  between f...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-11-02T19:00:55+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>To Have and To Hold</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/3-slutty-mcwhore/62-to-have-and-to-hold</link>
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        <![CDATA[Whenever a man comes to see me for a handjob, he assumes that only he and I will be in the massage room together. However, there is always a third person there, and her shadowy, intangible presence makes me feel uncomfortable every time. Sometimes I forget about her for a few minutes, but she never lets me neglect her for very long. Yes, she is always there ... The Wife ... reprimanding me sile...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-10-29T11:21:51+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Slutty McWhore</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 24 - 30 October </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/61-the-week-in-film-24-30-october</link>
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        <![CDATA[This week sees Saw V cut a swathe out  of cinema takings in the UK as the latest film in the franchise is unleashed.  Having not seen any of the previous films I&rsquo;m unable to pass comment  on this one, though the suspicion is that people die. Horribly.
Ricky Gervais stars in Ghost Town, a  story about a man who dies for seven minutes during an operation and  finds he can see dead people w...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-10-28T11:28:30+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 17 - 23 October </title>
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        <![CDATA[Glasgow Film Theatre
Film of the moment Gomorrah &ndash; the Italian  story of various nefarious goings on by the mafia, or Camorra &ndash; comes  to the GFT this week, fresh from the scandal it caused in its home country.  Less controversial is the new Coen brothers movie, Burn After Reading,  starring George Clooney and Frances McDormand (Fargo) in a story about  blackmail going wrong, CIA i...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-10-22T10:51:32+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 10 &#8211; 16 October</title>
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        <![CDATA[A quiet week in blockbuster land sees Kiefer Sutherland&rsquo;s slightly suspect attempt at 24-meets-gory-horror, Mirrors, opening alongside City of Ember, a fantasy adventure filmed in and around the UK. EdinburghOn a smaller scale is Time and Winds at the Filmhouse, a Turkish picture which looks at the lives of three young men as they struggle against the precarious political system of the re...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-10-09T17:48:56+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 3 - 9 October</title>
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        <![CDATA[A couple of big hitters arrive at cinemas  around the country this week. The new version of Brideshead Revisted,  based on Evelyn Waugh&rsquo;s classic novel, is first up. Slightly shorter  than the 11-hour 1980s TV series, the movie stars Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder who reflects on his involvement with the Flyte family  prior to the Second World War. Emma Thompson co-stars.
Everyone&rsquo;...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-10-02T19:15:42+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>The Week in Film 26 September &#8211; 2 October </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/57-the-week-in-film-26-september-2-october</link>
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        <![CDATA[Instead of the usual blockbusters  taking centre stage at the multiplexes, we&rsquo;ve handpicked a few of  the smaller films showing this coming week that deserve your attention&hellip;
Glasgow Film Theatre
The GFT screens two films currently on limited  release in the UK: Linha de Passe and I&rsquo;ve Loved You So Long. Linhe  de Passe is the latest film from Motorcycle Diaries director Wal...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-09-29T18:33:22+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jonathan Melville</author>
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      <title>Searching for the Exit</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/3-slutty-mcwhore/56-searching-for-the-exit</link>
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        <![CDATA[This month I can barely bring myself to write about erotic massage or my life as a sex worker. I've been working as a masseuse in the United States for well over two years now, and boredom and frustration have finally set in, so much so that it pains me even to write about my profession. There was never a point where I actually enjoyed the work &ndash; it was always just a way to earn money qui...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-09-24T15:57:30+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Slutty McWhore</author>
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      <title>September theatre</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/55-september-theatre</link>
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        <![CDATA[In last month&rsquo;s editorial, I suggested that while performance might not be damaging to the social structure, it is, at best, morally neutral. This position could be seen to undermine the purpose of art - after all, if it is just pretty shapes and sounds and movements, how can it be taken seriously? If it makes no impact, what's the point?
Fortunately, many performers disagree with me, an...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-09-24T13:01:21+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth K Vile</author>
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      <title>I kissed plenty of girls but I never thought to capitalise on it</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/54-i-kissed-plenty-of-girls-but-i-never-thought-to-capitalise-on-it</link>
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        <![CDATA[In case you&rsquo;re not familiar yet with Katy Perry&rsquo;s I Kissed A Girl, here&rsquo;s a quick summary of the lyrics: &ldquo;I kissed a girl and it was nice, but don&rsquo;t worry, I have a boyfriend, so it&rsquo;s not like there&rsquo;s a major lifestyle change on the cards here, and I hope he won&rsquo;t mind but of course he won&rsquo;t because it&rsquo;s not like kissing girls really c...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-09-22T10:28:12+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nine</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode XII: The Epilogue</title>
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        <![CDATA[Hydro Connect is officially over for another year. The revellers have gone home to warm showers and washing machines, leaving the event staff to clear the discarded tents from the mud-splattered campsite.
But instead of grimly contemplating the forthcoming week of work, it's time to remember a few of yesterday's highlights from Inverary...
It is more a lack of options than any fanboy enthusia...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-09-01T20:40:21+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode XI: Karl Bartos</title>
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        <![CDATA[Despite seeing the very good Camera Obscura and We Were Promised Jetpacks since my last post, I simply have to finish tonight with a shout-out for Kraftwerk man Karl Bartos. There could only have been about a hundred people in the Unknown Pleasures tent when he took the stage two hours ago, which meant there were less bodies than expected to soak up the huge volume. But, unlike the full Kraftwe...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-31T21:45:18+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Ally Brown</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode X: Young Knives and Santogold try to warm us up</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/51-connect-2008-episode-x-young-knives-and-santogold-try-to-warm-us-up</link>
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        <![CDATA[Ally's already bemoaned today's conditions, so I'll refrain from any further mentions of 'rain', 'mud' or 'cesspool' - for the duration of this post anyway.
The first act I caught today was Young Knives, who bounded out on to the Oyster Stage dressed for the office in shirts, trousers and ties. But they belied their formal attire with their tight, punky, Britpop-evoking tunes and amusing bante...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-31T18:59:46+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode IX: Frightened Rabbit</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Skinny's seen worse than the mud here today, but it's still difficult to keep spirits high when you're soaking wet with no central heating in sight. Those still holding out without wellies are struggling to walk anywhere without falling on their bahookies: just like the scene here last year, when I fell on my arse three times while ruining my trainers. Just as well we've had some great musi...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-31T18:09:44+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Ally Brown</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode VIII: Glasvegas win over the doubters</title>
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        <![CDATA[Everything's been going pretty fast for Glasvegas recently. From a spot by Alan McGee, to a profile in The Skinny (the turning point, of course), to the cover of the NME, the hype's been building towards the release of their debut self-titled album next Monday (review/coronation here). But they remain a polarising band, attracting equal amounts of passionate distaste as passionate fandom. At T ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-31T14:18:33+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Ally Brown</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode VII: Errors make no mistakes</title>
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        <![CDATA[It's Sunday lunchtime, it has been raining solidly for much of the night, the campsite has gone from a mudbath to a mudpool, so it's time to reminisce of a (slightly) drier time: last night.
With the drizzle gently descending, Glasgow's Errors played a blinding second-top billing slot on the Your Sound Bandstand. The singer may have looked like Wally of Where's Wally? fame in his bright red ha...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-31T13:28:46+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode VI: The art of destruction</title>
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        <![CDATA[One of the most highly anticipated sets of this year's Connect is surely Spiritualized. They've toured their Acoustic Mainlines show to death, and prior to this frontman Jason Pierce very nearly worked himself to death. So it is with some excitement that we await their full-band, plugged-in, loud-as-fuck appearance on the Oyster Stage.The first half of their show draws heavily from latest album...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-30T23:59:10+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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