Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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ArtVenice Biennale: Karla Black & Mike Nelson
For those who don’t know, the Venice Biennale is a massive international contemporary art exhibition that takes place every two years in the city of Ve... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
FilmTeenage Daydream: Interview with Gregg Araki
Gregg Araki, director of new queer cinema freak-outs Totally Fucked Up and The Doom Generation, talks to The Skinny about his latest pop-art paean to teenage sexual liberation, Kaboom Read more »| 10 Jun 2011 -
Film
Howl
Allen Ginsberg was the fiery voice of a whole generation of disaffected American intellectuals and never more so than in his first published work, the poem H... Read more »| 10 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Xplicit – June Chart
Edinburgh's legendary drum and bass night Xplicit compile their top tracks for June with the help of Taz Buckfaster and ENO. SPY - Pressure Drop - Shogun Au... Read more »| 09 Jun 2011 -
ComedyJohn Hegley @ The Stand, 12 Jun
What is John Hegley? Poet? Comedian? Rock star? Read more »| 09 Jun 2011 -
MusicDennis Hopper Choppers - Be Ready
There are fundamentally two sides to Ben Nicholls’ latest incarnation of DHC: that of the lonesome wanderer, singing forlorn desert-bleached odes to lo... Read more »| 08 Jun 2011
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Music
Hero Worship: Ian Mackaye
Divorce's Andy Brown salutes a musician who refuses to compromise Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Comedy
In Profile: Michael Redmond
He was once described as the "possessor of comedy’s most mournful moustache" and Stewart Lee affectionately called him an "anonymous weirdo", but most people will know Michael Redmond as Father Ted's Father Stone, the most boring priest in the world Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Film
Armadillo
Armadillo’s approach to the war in Afghanistan is nominally non-political, but the film was nonetheless the subject of much debate in Denmark d... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Music
We Are Enfant Terrible – Explicit Pictures
The debut from this French electro-indie trio comes across like a vaguely grumpy, morose version of Bis. Boy-girl vocals, shuffling disco beats, cheesy casio... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Film
Kaboom
Kaboom opens with a naked Smith (Thomas Dekker) floating down a brightly lit corridor, looking a bit confused. So he should be. He is the centre of the colle... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Theatre
A Conversation with Carmel
Barrowland Ballet’s A Conversation with Carmel explores the value of the older person in our lives. Inspired by conversations with her grandmother, Nat... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Music
The Mojo Fins – Shake the Darkness
Quite why the worlds of post-rock and sensitive singer-songwriter balladry don’t meet more often is an enigma, as The Mojo Fins’ documentation of... Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Film
Donor Unknown
Donor Unknown: Adventures in the sperm trade. A young woman born through artificial insemination tracks down her donor dad, and along the way discovers dozen of siblings Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Colours presents Laidback Luke
The excitement around electro house has been slowly diminishing since the days of Ed Banger-influenced electro. The newer sounds have for the most part emerg... Read more »| 06 Jun 2011