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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FilmOn the Road
Ah, the road movie and the bromance, two sub-genres in no danger of dying out anytime soon thanks to their ubiquity on our cinema screens. But they've been w... Read more »| 11 Oct 2012 -
ArtScotland + Venice: Critical Dialogues
What is a fallow year for Venice Art Biennale is the big blowout for the architecture world. But as you might expect, the work on show at the 13th Internatio... Read more »| 11 Oct 2012 -
ArtSemi @ Rhubaba
It is a brave move to introduce an exhibition by quoting from Shelley's Ozymandias - ''Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!'' – but there is nothi... Read more »| 11 Oct 2012 -
Music
Palma Violets / Childhood @ Electric Circus, 8 October
There’s a certain look that some bands have, a look of easy confidence from the moment they stride onto the stage. Childhood have that look... Read more »| 11 Oct 2012 -
Comedy
Andy Zaltzman: Touring Armchair Revolutionary
Attention Buglers! Andy Zaltzman stops to talk to us before his return to Scotland Read more »| 11 Oct 2012 -
FilmEverything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007
Everything or Nothing is a breezy document of the James Bond franchise (books, television and movies) that’s as well-put-together as its iconic title c... Read more »| 10 Oct 2012
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Film
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
There’s a great tragedy at the heart of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but it isn’t the crippling loneliness felt by its protagonist Charlie (L... Read more »| 10 Oct 2012 -
Art
Edinburgh Printmakers – Own Art
Edinburgh Printmakers is a quiet, welcoming wee place to visit, despite its proximity to the hustle and bustle of the capital’s centre. You would never... Read more »| 10 Oct 2012 -
Music
Alice Cooper: Keepin' Halloween Alive
Alice Cooper casts his predictions for costume choices at his Halloween Night of Fear (Iron Man, anyone?) and muses on the season’s ever-escalating appeal Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Music
This Many Boyfriends – This Many Boyfriends
This Many Boyfriends’ scrappy-go-lucky debut wears its DNA like so many button badges. It’s in their name, a nod to Beat Happening. It’s i... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Clubs
Tiger & Woods and Tensnake @ Naive, Chambre69, 23 October
Recent years have seen the release of countless disco re-edits. Many of these are merely extended loops, edited in a simple manner, often lacking imagination... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Art
DashnDem & Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen @ DCA
DashnDem’s Imagine Being a World Leader adorns Gallery 1 of the DCA with all the artifice of the political Summit; a red carpet, the backdrop of a stat... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Clubs
DJ MikeQ @ Killer Kitsch, Buff Club, 16-17 October
The re-emergence of musical sub-genres usually requires a willing ambassador at the helm, taking the sound beyond its original parameters and geographical bo... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Music
PAWS / North American War @ CCA, 4 October
Tonight begins with a major disappointment: the promised rum and coke floats are unavailable. The CCA weren’t keen on the potential mess, explains a ba... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Music
Omar Rodríguez-López Group @ Stereo, 30 September
The Omar Rodríguez-López Group is a chimera, not a band – a catch-all name to encompass an ever-changing line-up expounding Omar’s... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012