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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MusicRobin Guthrie @ Cameo Cinema, 3 Jun
fashions lasting impressions of an experience of heaven Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicFuck-Off Machete / De Rosa / Paul Research / Rieser @ Swamp Bar @ Edinburgh
F.O. Machete close the evening on top form, delivering a typically blistering half-hour of serrating, sandblasting belters. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Music
Spare Snare - Sort It For Afterwards
Spare Snare will go elsewhere for their next gig Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicIsobel Campbell @ The Liquid Room. 30 May
Not often can the countrified laments of Northwest America and the majestic balladry of central Scotland appear quite so compatible as they do here tonight Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Art
Helen van Meene
The emotional spectrum runs from unsettling to downright creepy Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Art
Dada's Boys
The notion of questioned male identity is reflected in the works by the frankly stellar array of contemporary artists Read more »| 15 Jul 2006
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Art
The Glasgow Art School Degree Show
massive in its scope, almost impossible to fully digest, with work of potency often hung next to underdeveloped juvenilia Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Niall MacDonald and Jim Ramsey - That Old Subtle Foe
points towards several preoccupations, neatly sidestepping any chance for proscriptive interpretation Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Jonathan Scott and Fred Pederson - Demo
Jonathon Scott's ambition translates into true excellence Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Art
Test Transmissions
explores the idea of television, and its use for art, since independent production became a possibility Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Books
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
This is a wonderful book, lyrically written Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
Glasgow Film News: July
Perhaps you'd prefer something unpredictable, dramatic, shocking, exciting, hair-raising and world shaking on the big screen? Look no further. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Comedy
Stars - July 2006
You're reading the horoscopes section. Wise up! It's time to sort it out and take a grip of yourself (no, not like that) Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Art
Local Artist - Steve Pool
...if you have the drive and belief in your work you will get noticed. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
The Demise of Cinema City
Although not every cinema from 'Cinema City' can be held up as a classic of design, efforts ought to be made to retain the best and most representative examples as a consistent part of architectural heritage. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006