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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TheatreThat's All Folks
A marriage in chaos before the best man gets up to toast the couple. Inspector Sands investigates. Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Music
Limozine - Evil Love
Evil Love is a spluttering tip of the cap to old school rock n' roll, which sees London-based quartet, Limozine dole out chunky three chord struts wh... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
MusicMeursault: Escape from Auld Reekie
In a flourishing music scene, Meursault are one of Edinburgh's brightest hopes in recent years – it's high time everyone else caught on Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
MusicShe & Him - Volume Two
While adjustments have been made, She & Him’s sophomore release is very much an extension of their first. A choir of merrily chirruping Zooeys and ... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
FilmThe Cry of the Owl
This low-key adaptation of one of Patricia Highsmith’s lesser-known stories finds a troubled divorcee (Considine) becoming obsessed with a pretty young... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Film
Raging Phoenix
Thailand continues its dominance of the martial arts genre with this latest effort from the producers of Ong-Bak. Deu (Chocolate star Yanin) is a rock drumme... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010
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Music
Whiplash - Losing Control
Australian MC, Whiplash, doesn't so much spit rhymes as dribble them, drooling nearly indecipherable vocal trails that are nearly all lost in a maze of gawdy... Read more »| 04 Apr 2010 -
Music
Officer Kicks - Citywide Curfew
Remember the music of The Winter Olympics? That was Officer Kicks. What about the interludes on Soccer AM? Also Officer Kicks. Even if you don’t recal... Read more »| 03 Apr 2010 -
Comedy
Ten Years of the Glasgow Stand
The Stand in Glasgow is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Co-founder Tommy Sheppard talks fair play and comedic integrity. Read more »| 03 Apr 2010 -
Music
Dam Mantle – Grey EP
There’s definitely something in the water in Glasgow; from the city that’s only just given us Rustie and the squelchy aural bliss that is... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
Film
Sex Life In L.A.
Made in 1997 and 2004, this excellent two-part documentary exposes a world far removed from the big money cosmeticism of mainstream hetero skin flick... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
MusicWoodpigeon - Die Stadt Muzikanten
Written in Berlin, contemplating the lives of his Austrian/German grandparents with one eye on his former home of Edinburgh, Canadian songwriter Mark... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
Books
Tell Me a Story...
Stories and tales, poems and ceilidhs, Music and dancing and opera for babies! There's a lot going on at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
Film
The Greatest
When titular champ Bennett Brewer (Aaron Johnson) dies in a car accident, his family – including the high-school sweetheart carrying his unborn child &... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
Art
Gi picks
This year’s Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art has the theme of ‘past, present and future’, which encompasses, well, everything. So before we all start congratulating the board on coming up with such a profoundly vague concept let's see if there is substance to their ethereal musings. Here’s what The Skinny recommends Read more »| 02 Apr 2010