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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Clubs
Ada (Live) @ Optimo, The Black Rabbit Whorehouse
Ada injects the scene with a much needed dose of eccentricity Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Music
Toffs Can't Dance
We'll be doing a bit of MC-ing. Probably not on stage mind you. We will just be disembodied voices coming from the balcony! Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Music
Candi Staton @ The Ferry
No new tricks but she's a treasure nonetheless. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Music
King Biscuit Time: The Last Interview?
"Peace to you all. I'm out of here. It's been amazing but I've had enough. The mountain beat me. and sadly you too/that don't mean you should give up. It just wasn't me. Over and out. Steve xxxx" Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
MusicMogwai @ Usher Hall
For all the distortion, there still remained many clear moments of well-calculated pathos Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
MusicThe Twilight Singers: From Despair to Where?
"I make most of my records rather selfishly, they're done for me by me. That someone else would like it is just a bonus." - Greg Dulli Read more »| 16 May 2006
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MusicPearl Jam - Explore and Not Explode
On the eve of their most extensive world tour in years and the release of the Seattle legends' forthcoming self-titled album. Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard tells Dave Kerr what it's like to be back in the saddle. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
MusicOrson - Bright Idea Album
Even their haircuts have probably been designed to sell the most posters to go on pink bedroom walls Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
FilmConfetti
Nudists, musical lovers, and tennis players fight tooth and nail for, you guessed it, a big house. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Film
Eight Below
Not involving enough for adults and too dull for kids. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Film
Silent Hill
The dialogue is as subtle as spilled intestines Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Film
An American Haunting
This hysterical ghost story offers little more than nice period detail and exceptionally loud noises Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Comedy
Frankie Boyle Has A Rant
"I'll donate a million pounds if the whole cast touch the roof of their mouths with a loaded shotgun while riding on a rollercoaster. Telethons are horrible." Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Comedy
Dave Ingram
It turns out nothing silences a heckler like uncensored violence. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Theatre
Elizabeth Gordon Quinn Preview
let's hope that the focus remains on the plays rather than the politics of the NTS Read more »| 16 May 2006