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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MusicVivian Girls @ Captain's Rest, 20 Jan
Vivian Girls are on surprisingly prim form. Sure, there's plenty of scuzz, toms and harmonic reverb-filled vocals, especially during Second Date and an acape... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
FilmBrothers
From a troubled upbringing dominated by their heavy-drinking, Marine father (Sam Shepard) the Cahill brothers have grown into very different men. Sam... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
FilmTop Five: February Film Events
Legendary film critic Mark Kermode is at the Cameo on 8 February and the GFT on the 9 February, discussing the experiences he's had during his lucrative, out... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Art
Karla Black @ Inverleith House
An artist who has described her own work as “in no way supposed to look like a landscape”, Black was faced with a challenge in the form of Inverl... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Books
The House of the Mosque
With gentle beginnings, this novel resembles a folk tale. It gradually introduces the members of an extended family who have lived in the titular hou... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Film
Adoration
After a brief flirtation with genre filmmaking in the underrated Where the Truth Lies, Atom Egoyan's Adoration finds the auteur in more familiar terr... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010
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MusicImogen Heap @ ABC, 8 Feb
Since hitting her stride with 2005's Speak for Yourself, singer songwriter Imogen Heap has constantly found new and innovative ways to create electronic hype... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Comedy
Write Here, Write Now
Everyone I know is writing a sitcom, including me. Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Film
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Lee Daniels’ hard-hitting depiction of the life of a Harlem teenager will, without doubt, make a big splash at the Oscars this year. It’s... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Theatre
Chinese State Circus
The Chinese State Circus have moved from their habitual big top and into the theatre. Read more »| 23 Jan 2010 -
Music
Gil Scott-Heron - Me and the Devil
If hip-hop is dead, then Gil Scott-Heron made a pact at the crossroads. With Me and the Devil he succeeds in resurrecting the genre’s gaudy corpse and ... Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
Music
Comanechi @ Captain's Rest, 18 Jan
The Captain's Rest is compact, cosy and always perfect for its frequent louder gigs. This is especially true when they're packed to the gills like this one, ... Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
Music
Souls of Mischief - Montezuma's Revenge
Montezuma's Revenge sees Oakland legends Souls of Mischief reunited for an album that won't fail to delight fans of quality hip-hop. Starting out on a defian... Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
Music
Danny and the Champions of the World - Streets of Our Time
Either we’ve been caught on a soppy day, or Danny and The Champions of the World make genuinely affecting country-folk. Australian-born, south London l... Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
Theatre
Save the Big Red Door
Edinburgh needs venues: The Big Red Door needs to be rescued. What is going on around the corner from one of Edinburgh's most notorious triangles? Read more »| 22 Jan 2010