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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ArtOwn Art @ Christmas 2013
Looking for the perfect gift for the art lover in your life this Christmas? Are the prices involved a little too high, given all the belt-tightening and budg... Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
Art
MANY: Lisbon Calling
All about winter sun and international cooperation, MANY sent a group of artists to participate in Portuguese art festival Guimarães Noc Noc. We asked Gordon Douglas and Conor Baird how they got on Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
ArtAndy Holden Interview: Seven Wonders
First brought to fame for picking bits off the Giza Pyramids, Andy Holden's polymathic art draws on diverse fields, from music to geology. We spoke to him ahead of his new performance at Hospitalfield House for their Winter Open Weekend Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
Comedy
Spotlight: Jayne Edwards
Stand-up and bodybuilder Jayne Edwards talks to us about performing in spite of anxiety, and enjoying a good cry-hug with strangers during other comics’ shows Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
Theatre
Point of Contact: CYAC present their Christmas show, Advent Avenue
For over a decade, Contact Young Actors Company has provided training, support and fun for young people in Manchester. We speak to them as they prepare for their Christmas show, Advent Avenue Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
Books
Unholy Night: Emma Jane Unsworth, Richard Hirst and the Christmas ghost story
As they prepare to publish an anthology of ghost stories for Christmas, Emma Jane Unsworth and Richard Hirst discuss the format's unique license to chill Read more »| 04 Dec 2013
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ClubsPerfect 10: Numbers Set to Celebrate in Style
Richard Chater ponders the ten year anniversary of Glaswegian clubbing institution, Numbers Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
TheatreHeart on a String: War Horse and the Power of Puppetry
As international phenomenon War Horse comes to Salford's Lowry, we ask why it's taken the National Theatre's blockbuster show to convince audiences of puppetry's emotional power as an art form – and that it's not just for kids Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Neville Watson
House music stalwart Neville Watson picks ten records that have been set-regulars over his 20 year career Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
Comedy
What Offends Frankie Boyle?
The cantankerous old bastard on retiring, satanic sex murders and James Arthur Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
Music
Cinematic Orchestrator: Cliff Martinez recaps over two decades of film scoring
With Only God Forgives about to hit DVD, composer, former Chili Pepper and Captain Beefheart collaborator Cliff Martinez looks back on more than twenty years of soundtrack composition Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – December 2013
There's no such thing as a silent night Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
The Albums of 2013 (#9): Future of the Left – How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident (Prescriptions)
The end of a short tour is a mixed blessing; or, as Andrew Falkous puts it, “very sweet but kind of fruity”. It’s saying goodbye to weeks o... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
MusicThe Albums of 2013 (#10): Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels (Fool's Gold / Big Dada)
Swimming against the ego-obsessed current of mainstream hip-hop with scientific lyrical beatdowns and heavy electronic boom-bap beats, Killer Mike and El-P delivered this year's finest rap album as Run The Jewels Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Art
Louise Bourgeois @ Fruitmarket, until 23 Feb
220 framed paper-works hang side by side on the ground floor of the Fruitmarket. This intense collection from Louise Bourgeois’ Insomnia Drawings forms... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013