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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BooksRental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
Shoji Morimoto's unique memoir tracks the author's life as he refuses work and rents himself out as a passive companion Read more »| 06 Jul 2023 -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival: The 2023 programme
Edinburgh Film Festival reveals its 2023 programme, which includes a documentary on Irvine Welsh, a patricide thriller set in the Highlands and possibly the year's best film, alongside new work from Kelly Reichardt, Christian Petzold and Ira Sachs Read more »| 06 Jul 2023 -
ComedyFringe Dog's guide to Edinburgh
edinburgh is the crunchy peanut butter of cities !!! every august i bound around sniffin’ out 5star comedy and even when the festival is over 'auld reekie' is still a pup's paradise !!! Read more »| 06 Jul 2023 -
FilmThe Damned Don't Cry
Fyzal Boulifa's new film follows a middle-aged single mother and her teen son as they both attempt to use their bodies to escape poverty in Tangier Read more »| 05 Jul 2023 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: July 2023
Interactive carnivals, exciting touring shows and a new venue for A Play, A Pie and a Pint – here's our guide to the best new Scottish theatre this July Read more »| 04 Jul 2023 -
MusicJulie Byrne – The Greater Wings
A sonically patient, cinematic and hopeful record, The Greater Wings grabs you and pulls you down into Byrne’s slowly breathing world of all-encompassing grief Read more »| 04 Jul 2023
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MusicPJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying
With I Inside the Old Year Dying, PJ Harvey has produced her most beguiling work yet Read more »| 04 Jul 2023 -
MusicMeursault – Meursault
The self-titled, sixth record from Neil Pennycook and company reflects upon their past and journeys through a post-apocalyptic future with chaotic synths, mournful strings and feedback-riddled crescendos in tow Read more »| 04 Jul 2023 -
MusicScottish New Music Round-up: July 2023
This summer, the neophytes and newcomers of the Scottish music scene show their ability in looking back, reflecting on influences, and mastering a canon of retro genres, all while putting their own styles on these emerging trends Read more »| 04 Jul 2023 -
ArtScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: July 2023
As visual arts' busiest months arrive, new exhibitions by Christian Noelle Charles, Sebastian Thomas and Jala Wahid open in Glasgow and Edinburgh Read more »| 04 Jul 2023 -
FilmScottish Film Events: July 2023
SAFAR, the UK’s largest festival of Arab cinema, comes to GFT, while DCA and Cameo get us revved up for Barbie with Greta Gerwig seasons Read more »| 04 Jul 2023 -
MusicScottish Live Music Highlights: July 2023
July's live music round-up feels very festive – TRNSMT and Edinburgh Jazz Festival return, plus month-long fests at King Tut's and the Hug & Pint Read more »| 03 Jul 2023 -
ArtDualchas: Design and its peripheries
Much of our recent writing about contemporary design explores how it overlaps and intersects with other artforms; we speak to writer and film director Peter Marsden about his work on the Dualchas installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale Read more »| 03 Jul 2023 -
FilmSmoking Causes Coughing
A band of tobacco-powered superheroes save the world in this brisk and daft comedy from the mind of Quentin Dupieux (Deerskin, Rubber) Read more »| 03 Jul 2023 -
BooksSarah Bernstein on new novel Study for Obedience
Canadian-born, Highlands-based author Sarah Bernstein unpacks her second novel Study for Obedience, a gothic tale of power and complicity Read more »| 03 Jul 2023