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Fri 03 Jul 2009

Ray Philp: You scratch our backs, we’ll scratch yours - that’s how it works at The Skinny. You pick up your monthly copy (for the price of ‘on the house’, may we remind you), and we faithfully provide you with 24-carat quality information. W...

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The Dullest Blog: comedy ramblings to inspire the most tedious minute of your week »

Tue 30 Jun 2009

Paul Sneddon: The Internet. One of the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs in human history. It keeps each and every one of us in touch with one another 24 hours a day, seven days a week at the click of a mouse. Well, that’s the theory at any rate...

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EIFF 2009: And that's a wrap! »

Mon 29 Jun 2009

Gail Tolley: The Skinny’s Film Editor Gail Tolley talks through her highlights of this year’s film festival. Unmade Beds – A beautiful and sensitive account of a handful of 20-somethings living in a squat in east London. Whilst the characters are ve...

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Some Home Comforts »

Fri 26 Jun 2009

Ray Philp: Whatever your excuse for moving back in with your parents (“the credit crunch”, seems to cut it for just about anything anyway), there’s still a persistent finger-tap-on-the-shoulder pang of shame attached to it. You could always console...

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EIFF 2009: Antichrist »

Wed 24 Jun 2009

Michael Gillespie: I reach the Cineworld Fountainbridge in the nick of time to catch Antichrist. I walk through wind and rain to get there (rather appropriately as it turns out) and in my seat only minutes before the film starts. I find a seat at the back next to a projectio...

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Tue 23 Jun 2009

Bratchy: Recently my gran celebrated her birthday. I made her a homemade birthday card, presuming that the personal investment in the endeavour would warm her ancient, knackered heart. She asked me if I made it on Moonpig.com. The birthday in question was her 81s...

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The Summertime Hop – One Night With You (Just Ain't Enough) »

Mon 22 Jun 2009

Carrie MacLennan: Here I sit, bleary eyed. It's Monday evening and I'm still recovering from the Made In The Shade rock'n'roll weekend. Praise Presley for Lucozade Orange. The Made In The Shade gals hosted our first annual Summertime Hop event on Saturday where we took over...

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EIFF 2009: Day One »

Sat 20 Jun 2009

Michael Gillespie: Believe it or not, but this is my first Edinburgh International Film Festival. I know, I know, and I call myself a film buff. The closest I’ve ever come to attending a film at the event was when I was knocked back from a mid-afternoon screening of La...

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Intruders at the EIFF »

Fri 19 Jun 2009

Ray Philp: To boldly go where no man has gone before - a phrase that remains inextricable from a certain sci-fi telly series, and one with limited application to anyone other than James T. Kirk. On the surface, it seems incongruous to veteran B-movie auteur, Roger Co...

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The Dullest Blog: comedy ramblings to inspire the most tedious minute of your week »

Tue 16 Jun 2009

Rhona McKenzie: I was asked to write this blog at short notice and was not sure if I could as I am just about to go holiday. However thanks to the power of the internet I am able to write whilst warming my bum nicely on the Caledonian Sleeper heading from Glasgow to Londo...

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Hook, Line and Some Stinkers »

Fri 12 Jun 2009

Ray Philp: I used to think that a wasp was the only thing that could ruin a summer’s day. That is, until I went on a seaside holiday some years ago in the Baltic, and found Mother Nature to be a resourceful old hag who also created a wasp for the water - the j...

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Let's Blow This One Horse Town: Departures '09 »

Thu 11 Jun 2009

Carrie MacLennan: How does it go Ms. Wynette? “Sometimes it's hard to be a woman”? I guess sometimes it is. I'm supposing it's sometimes a bit of a struggle being a man too. There are points in the year when crafty therapy – the Fraggle-esque 'knit your c...

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The Dullest Blog: comedy ramblings to inspire the most tedious minute of your week »

Tue 09 Jun 2009

Stephen Callaghan: No question that cannot be answered. How did we cope without it? Kids nowadays will grow up never knowing a world where people could not google all over each other and do emails at each other, let alone get our Twitters out on the bus. I recalled my chil...

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Clare & Carrie's Weekend Craft Attack »

Mon 08 Jun 2009

Carrie MacLennan: Oh my! It's been a busy fortnight for the Made In The Shade gals. We're pretty beat. In between all the buzzing around adding finishing touches to the Made In The Shade Summertime Hop, our incessant list making and fretful struggles with intimidating spr...

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Christian's Salvation? »

Fri 05 Jun 2009

Ray Philp: All publicity is good publicity, as the truism goes, but to whom the publicity is of benefit to is another matter. It’s proven to be the undoing of Susan Boyle of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ fame, and it might prove to undermine th...

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Samuel Beckett, Throbbing Gristle, and a month of fun »

Thu 04 Jun 2009

RJ Thomson: You can use an editorial for all sorts of things, from ranting to enthusing, inspiring to pretending you care about shit you blatantly don’t. This month I’m in practical mood, so will rather serve to preview a couple of brilliant-looking events...

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Tue 02 Jun 2009

Teddy: The Internet Choice. A word which is usually seen as a positive (so long as it’s not got the word “Sophie’s” before it). I’m not that big a fan of choice. When I worked in my parents Ironmongers (I was never a very good mon...

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Expressway to Yr Skull: Primavera 2009, Day Three »

Sun 31 May 2009

Nick Mitchell: My ears have almost recovered since My Bloody Valentine rammed a hundred decibels into them last night, so Primavera Day Three is good to go. First on our agenda is Texan band Shearwater, which began as a side project by two members of Okkervil River but h...

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Here Comes the Tinnitus: Primavera 2009, Day Two »

Sat 30 May 2009

Nick Mitchell: After all that blokey noise rock last night, the sight and sound of Bat For Lashes is a welcome flash of exotic glamour for Primavera. Wearing a snug black and white jump-suit, Natasha Khan is having a lot of fun in the evening sun, dancing all across the ...

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Jarvis, Bird and Aphex: Primavera 2009, Day One »

Fri 29 May 2009

Nick Mitchell: With heads still fuzzy from the previous night's anarchy, we set off for Primavera in the early evening sunshine. Located a couple of miles along the seafront from the tourist trap of Las Ramblas, past a bland commercial district, the festival site is a fi...

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Cannes at the Countryside »

Thu 28 May 2009

Ray Philp: As the Cannes Film Festival rolls up the red carpet for another year, it's a curious point to note that one of the enduring impressions of the festival, to some observers, has been the relative fallowness of glamour and extravagance. Indeed, there ar...

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A Prelude to Primavera 2009 »

Thu 28 May 2009

Nick Mitchell: It feels like a revolution. Thousands of flag-bearing revellers roam the night streets. Fireworks blast, bins are overturned, scooters knocked on their sides. Outdoor cafes are destroyed, phone booths shattered. The hordes shout, sing and occasionally figh...

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A Woman's Touch: A Celebration of 'Clutter Chic' »

Tue 26 May 2009

Carrie MacLennan: Ok. So it's nearly June. By all accounts, it is summertime. So what's with the big grey clouds flobbing around outside my window? What's with the blustery autumnal days and the unpredictable rainfall? Weather-wise, it's no more summertime than fleein' in a...

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The Dullest Blog: comedy ramblings to inspire the most tedious minute of your week »

Tue 26 May 2009

Billy Kirkwood: The text message of ‘Let’s go for a picnic’ is clearly met with confusion by those I have invited. Lot’s of replies of ‘what?’ and ‘I’m busy’ and ‘Are you six?’. “Six am I? …....

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Cannes 2009: Jim Carrey stops by »

Fri 22 May 2009

Gail Tolley: Jim Carrey made a fleeting visit to the film festival to introduce his gay rom-com I Love You, Philip Morris. “I’m just a cog in the machine” he exclaimed to the audience before being rushed off to promote his other film in Cannes A...

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