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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BooksConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
A bestseller in Japan, Convenience Store Woman is an offbeat, tongue-in-cheek read, filled with the minuscule joys of everyday life, and a tale of finding one’s own path to happiness. Read more »| 02 Jul 2018 -
FilmFilms of 2018: Mid-year report
Time for the obligatory mid-year movie report. These are the ten films that have delighted us in 2018 so far, from Paul Thomas Anderson's blackly comic romance Phantom Thread to Wes Anderson stop-motion romp Isle of Dogs Read more »| 02 Jul 2018 -
ClubsGuest Selector: Sync 24
Ahead of his set at The Mash House, Cultivated Electronics label boss Sync 24 picks out his favourite electro records of 2018. Read more »| 29 Jun 2018 -
MusicMissy Mcanulty – Home (Video Premiere)
Watch the new music video for Edinburgh-based Missy Mcanulty's new single, Home Read more »| 29 Jun 2018 -
Music
FLY Open Air Festival announced
The line-up for FLY's weekender in September is announced via a promo video featuring FLY residents Jasper James and Theo Kottis Read more »| 29 Jun 2018 -
Books
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
Haig navigates a world that can be dark and stressful in search of the light that lifts the weight of the world off our shoulders; whether or not that’s possible, it’s nice to believe it is Read more »| 29 Jun 2018
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Clubs
Nightvision announce Leith Docks Sound System
The Nightvision team's newest project will take place on Leith’s Waterfront at the Ocean Terminal Centre Read more »| 29 Jun 2018 -
Film
Calibre wins EIFF's Michael Powell Award
Edinburgh-based filmmaker Matt Palmer’s Highland set thriller takes Edinburgh International Film Festival’s top prize, with Best Documentary going to Kevin Macdonald's Whitney Read more »| 29 Jun 2018 -
Music
Supersonic 2018: The Review
Shirley Collins, Daniel Higgs, Terminal Cheesecake and Gnod are just some of the exceptionally talented artists who thrill at this year's Supersonic Festival in Birmingham Read more »| 28 Jun 2018 -
Film
Unicorn Store
The directorial debut from Brie Larson is an unabashedly girlie hymn to embracing your inner child Read more »| 28 Jun 2018 -
Film
Wild Nights with Emily
Instead of the hermit spinster that she’s often imagined as, Madeleine Olnek uses Dickinson’s own vivid writing to paint her as an altogether gayer character, in both senses of the word Read more »| 28 Jun 2018 -
Film
The Great Buddha+
Two local scavengers who live on odd jobs and food scraps and a security guard watch the latter’s boss’s dashcam camera for entertainment. When some events start to unsettle, they are drawn into a world of shady business deals and midnight crimes. Read more »| 28 Jun 2018 -
Music
Edwin Organ – Eurasian Cave Love (Track Premiere)
Listen to the new single, Eurasian Cave Love, from Glasgow's Edwin Organ and accompanying Bossy Love remix Read more »| 28 Jun 2018 -
Music
Tropics – Nocturnal Souls
The night comes alive with a soulful pulse on Tropics’ third record Nocturnal Souls Read more »| 27 Jun 2018 -
Music
Gorillaz – The Now Now
Gorillaz's latest album The Now Now celebrates the interpenetration of alternate realities and our mundane. It’s a reminder that realities, real or otherwise, are shared Read more »| 27 Jun 2018