Lifestyle
Your one-stop shop for everything lifestyle at The Skinny. Join us for food and drink reads and reviews, fashion and style, sexuality and opinion pieces, tech news and features, student guides and travel guides and features.
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Fashion
Skinny Jeans - Wake Up (to) Mr West
To begin: an apology. Boys, it’s true - you really have been left out in the cold as far as column inches go, for as many months as the fashion section... Read more »| 18 Oct 2008 -
Fashion
Cheer up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)
Fashion Editor's Note: In honour of this month's neo-punk theme & rebellious spirit, three fearless representatives of The Skinny's team were dispatched to experiment with the cosmetic/testosterone vortex. In layman's terms? We made our boys wear eyeliner. This is their story. Read more »| 15 Oct 2008 -
Tech
Digital Distribution Comes Home
When Microsoft launched Live Arcade on Xbox 360, it initially appeared as a bit of a mystery. Cheap, downloadable games that could be stored on your hard dri... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
Travel
A Helping Hand in New Dehli
Arun ponders the nature of existence during a recent trip to India Read more »| 09 Oct 2008 -
Travel
The Couchsurfing Chronicles
Steve Clarkson is the latest to nestle up on someone else's settee. Get in touch if you've got couchsurfing tales of your own Read more »| 09 Oct 2008 -
Fashion
ATTIC & 55DSL OFFICIAL 10.55 LAUNCH PARTY!
Attention Aberdonians: your lovely Belmont St Attic Clothing has only gone and scored you a doozie of a fashion exclusive, so keep the night of the 8th Octob... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008
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Food And Drink
In Clover: A Caffeine-Based Revolution
It’s the complex piece of machinery that US coffee connoisseurs fete as the greatest thing since sliced brioche with a pot of organic bilberry jam. Sin... Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
Food And Drink
The Tron Theatre Bar
Can a new artistic regime change herald a revival in fortunes for The Tron Theatre Bar? Once the drinking den of choice for Glasgow's arts crowd and ladies w... Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Tech
Final Fantasy IV
At it's heart, Final Fantasy IV is a typical Japanese Role-Playing Game (JRPG). Indeed the original set down many of the foundations that would become stapl... Read more »| 24 Sep 2008 -
Students
A Brief History of Scottish Music: 1978 - 2008
In Scotland we like to boast about how brilliant we are at just about everything. We invented pretty much the whole modern world, including television, the t... Read more »| 23 Sep 2008 -
Tech
Pass the Pigs
Pass the Pigs takes a peculiar turn-based game as it's foundation, coats it in a surreal RPG-ish shell with a wry script, and throws pigs in hats into the mi... Read more »| 19 Sep 2008 -
Tech
Spore
Spore begins on the microscopic level. You create a wee cell-like creature, decide whether it eats meat or plants, then set it free in primordial ooze. This ... Read more »| 18 Sep 2008 -
Students
Student Life: Budget Travel
For some people, student discounts just don’t suffice. If you’re looking for a different travel experience, check out the options below for more ways to get around. Read more »| 17 Sep 2008 -
Students
Student Life: When Frightened Rabbit Met A Psychedelic Cat
When I first arrived in Glasgow to study at the Art School, I was dropped off by my parents at the Margaret Macdonald House halls having enjoyed an unbearabl... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Students
Scotcampus Freshers' Festival
Taking the ‘square’ out of George Square, the second annual Scotcampus Freshers’ Festival rolls into the centre of Glasgow on 3 and 4 Octob... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008