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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FilmReality
Sydney Sweeney stars as whistleblower Reality Winner in this compelling, quiet-spoken thriller based on dialogue taken from Winner's FBI interrogation Read more »| 29 May 2023 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: June 2023
Exams are over, University is out and it’s officially summer. Top June picks include nights from Facta & K-LONE, DJ Gigola b2b MCR-T, Jana Rush and BFTT Read more »| 29 May 2023 -
FilmThe Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer explores the banality of evil in The Zone of Interest, which just picked up the Grand Prix at Cannes Read more »| 28 May 2023 -
ArtA Fragile Correspondence: Scotland at the Venice Architecture Biennale
Our design correspondent heads to Venice to explore A Fragile Correspondence, Scotland's presentation at the Architecture Biennale Read more »| 26 May 2023 -
FilmMedusa Deluxe
Thomas Hardiman's debut feature Medusa Deluxe is an inventive one-shot murder mystery set in the cutthroat world of competitive hairdressing Read more »| 26 May 2023 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: June 2023
June in Scotland's theatres sees returning Edinburgh Fringe hits, a new celebration of Billy Connolly, and evenings of storytelling at the CCA Read more »| 26 May 2023
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TheatreAnna Karenina @ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Lesley Hart's fresh adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina tells a passionate story at a heady pace Read more »| 25 May 2023 -
MusicSpotlight On... Pearling
Ahead of releasing her debut EP, we shine a spotlight on Glasgow 'fairy pop' producer Pearling Read more »| 25 May 2023 -
ArtSmashing Monuments, statues, and collective memory
The UK premiere of Sebastián Díaz Morales’ film Smashing Monuments questions the functions of monuments in our collective memory – but also whether our cities can really meet our everyday needs Read more »| 24 May 2023 -
FilmAsteroid City
Wes Anderson explores themes of grief and riffs on Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Asteroid City, which is among the richest films of his career Read more »| 24 May 2023 -
ClubsConnect to the Crowd: Patrick Mason interview
From cutting shapes on the dancefloor at Berghain to ripping the roof off Panorama Bar – Patrick Mason is now burning up dance floors all over the world. We chat to him ahead of his Riverside Festival debut Read more »| 23 May 2023 -
MusicWater From Your Eyes – Everyone's Crushed
On their new album, Chicago’s Water From Your Eyes dare to suggest experimental music can be funny Read more »| 23 May 2023 -
MusicBeyoncé @ Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, 20 May
At one point floating above the crowd on a silver horse, Beyoncé's three-hour long spectacle isn't short of theatrics, with her vocals powerful and effortless throughout Read more »| 22 May 2023 -
MusicArlo Parks – My Soft Machine
On My Soft Machine, introspective icon Arlo Parks practises an admirable gratitude for life in the face of some of its greatest challenges Read more »| 22 May 2023 -
MusicGuest Selector: Fred Deakin
To help get us in the mood ahead of his immersive theatre show Club Life, Lemon Jelly's Fred Deakin selects some of his favourite (mostly) 80s and 90s tunes Read more »| 22 May 2023