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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MusicUK Decay – New Hope for the Dead
Post-punk originators UK Decay are presenting listeners with a new, politically charged effort over thirty years after the release of their first LP. Surpris... Read more »| 27 May 2013 -
BooksAnywhere's Better Than Here by Zöe Venditozzi
Shortlisted for the 2010 Dundee International Book Prize, Anywhere’s Better Than Here is the story of Laurie, whose life has met a dead end at jus... Read more »| 27 May 2013 -
ArtThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 24 May
In today's Bulletin: cast your vote for the 2013 Scottish Album of the Year; new music from The xx, British Sea Power, Shit Robot, The Underachievers, Beacon and more; the return of visionary film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky; plus all the latest trailers Read more »| 24 May 2013 -
ArtLucy Holmes-Elliott: Queer Window Project
Everyone’s pals with someone who’s queer, says Lucy Holmes-Elliott, it’s just that we don’t always know it. That woman you work with ... Read more »| 24 May 2013 -
Books
The Home Corner by Ruth Thomas
The Home Corner is the story of a young woman cut loose from the airless confines of school and drifting almost imperceptibly from adolescence to adulthood. ... Read more »| 23 May 2013 -
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DJCAD 2013: Above and Beyond
Our Art Editor took a trip to Duncan of Jordanstone Degree Show and found many students already looking ahead to life after art school Read more »| 22 May 2013
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Film
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 22 May
In today's Bulletin: The Clash to release 5-disc box set; details from the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Scottish Opera programmes; plus new music from Icarus Line, Madlib, Congo Natty and Dirty Beaches Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
Books
Bear Witness by Mandy Haggith
One of the central themes of this novel – Mandy Haggith’s second with a bear in the title – is independence. It’s dealt with on a sli... Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
Film
I Wish
Hirokazu Koreeda's Nobody Knows (2004) is one of the saddest films ever made about childhood, but his latest, I Wish, feels like the optimistic fli... Read more »| 22 May 2013 -
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Epic
Epic feels like a deliberate throwback to children’s adventure films of the 80s and 90s. And not necessarily the good ones – it’s plagued b... Read more »| 21 May 2013 -
Books
Gutter 08
Gutter is a leading Scottish journal of prose, poetry, and review. The latter comprise a small wedge in the centre of the magazine, offering a nice round-u... Read more »| 21 May 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 20 May
In today's Bulletin: GENERATION celebrates the past 25 years of Scottish art; Rachel Maclean wins the Margaret Tait Award; new music from Wu-Tang Clan, Liars, Mount Kimbie and more; Dundee International Book Prize shortlist announced; and much more! Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
FilmMyth Making: Neil Jordan on Byzantium
Neil Jordan returns to the vampire sub-genre with Byzantium, an adult fairy tale starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan. We spoke to the Irishman at Glasgow Film Festival, where Byzantium had its UK première Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
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Byzantium
Neil Jordan loves a myth. His best movies (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa, The Company of Wolves) are dreamy fairy tales with one toe in reality. The sensual and... Read more »| 20 May 2013 -
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Gangster Squad
Not much liked by the critics on its theatrical release, Gangster Squad's account of the creation of an extra-legal LAPD team to take down mob boss Mickey Co... Read more »| 20 May 2013