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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MusicPurity Ring / Born Gold @ The Art School, 28 April
Brush your teeth; tonight’s a double helping of sugary, Canadian electro-wizardry, and the Art School’s bustling crowd is hungry for it. The bill... Read more »| 12 May 2015 -
ArtSevered Heads, Psychosculpture and Pilgrimage: This Week in Scottish Art
This week, art news covers ground from Livingston to Venice, with a bumper week of events across Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh and beyond. Read more »| 12 May 2015 -
Film
Mad Max: Fury Road
In a cinematic landscape where every movie series of notable mainstream or cult popularity is being resurrected instead of left for dead, one figure has emer... Read more »| 12 May 2015 -
Theatre
The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde
Adapting one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s most famous works was never going to be an easy task, but Morna Pearson’s reimagining of his classic sto... Read more »| 11 May 2015 -
Theatre
Mental Health Awareness in Performance
Fiona Geddes and Francisca Morton talk to The Skinny about their upcoming shows dealing with mental health, loss and attachment Read more »| 11 May 2015 -
BooksBBC Scotland launches Poet In Residence search
The Scottish Poetry Library and BBC Scotland have teamed up to search for an upcoming poet to take on a three month paid residency at the BBC. The residency... Read more »| 11 May 2015
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Clubs
When the Sun Goes Down: Riverside Festival Preview
We take a look at this month's Electric Frog and Pressure Riverside festival, with a particular focus on the brand new Sunset Stage Read more »| 11 May 2015 -
Art
Northern Greats: Summer in the Square
This month, we take a quick break from meeting the residents of the Great Northern to check back in with its programmers, Future Artists, who had so many summer events to tell us about they needed a whole column Read more »| 10 May 2015 -
FilmThe Tribe
The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s devastating ensemble piece, is told entirely in Ukrainian sign language, with no dialogue and no subtitles. Rather... Read more »| 07 May 2015 -
Music
Northwest Music News – 7 May: Africa Oyé Full Line-Up, Liverpool International Music Festival + more
Further Liverpool festival announcements Undeniably one of Liverpool's biggest summer parties, Africa Oyé (20-21 Jun) has revealed the rest of its li... Read more »| 07 May 2015 -
Film
“Cinema is a physical experience”: Alex Reuben showcase at HOME
We head to HOME for a special screening of work by filmmaker Alex Reuben Read more »| 07 May 2015 -
FilmClouds of Sils Maria
In her youth, Maria Enders (Binoche) made her name in Maloja Snake, a play in which a young woman seduces her boss – an older woman – and drives ... Read more »| 07 May 2015 -
Film
Genre-bender: François Ozon on comic thriller The New Girlfriend
François Ozon's new film, The New Girlfriend, is another of the French provocateurs playful studies of genre and gender. We find out what makes this mischievous filmmaker tick Read more »| 07 May 2015 -
Clubs
Vince Watson Music Playlists: Guest Selector
Man of many names and one of Scotland's finest, Vince Watson shares nine favourite LPs from his record collection Read more »| 06 May 2015 -
Clubs
Full Spectrum - Edinburgh International Science Festival
There’s a mysterious hum about Summerhall Courtyard tonight: bassy grumblings echoing from the pre-event warm-up dome, and The Royal Dick bar filling t... Read more »| 06 May 2015