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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MusicLazy Habits – Lazy Habits
Lazy Habits are one of those bands that don't need radio play, press coverage or internet hype to build their career – which isn't to say that their su... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
MusicYour Move, Raincloud – This is What's Left Over From Nothing That's Happened
Your Move, Raincloud – the project of 28-year-old Samuel Francis Cain – practise a kind of fragile, wilfully sentimental indie, which aims at th... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
ComedyOpinion: I Was A Misogynist Comedian
Comedian Michael J Dolan takes himself to task for allowing himself to write misognystic jokes Read more »| 02 Jan 2013 -
FilmForbidden Games
When five year old Paulette, traumatised by witnessing the violent death of her parents only a short time before and still clutching the corpse of her little... Read more »| 02 Jan 2013 -
Music
Pere Ubu – Lady From Shanghai
Few bands can claim the sort of hard-earned respect accorded to Pere Ubu. The Fall are one example that spring to mind; and as with that outfit, a new LP f... Read more »| 02 Jan 2013 -
Theatre
Venue of the Month: The Citizens
The Skinny speaks to Dominic Hill, artistic director of the Citz Read more »| 02 Jan 2013
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ComedyCrystal Baws: January 2013 Horoscopes
ARIESThis month a fully-operational Death Star moves into your chart while searching out remaining Rebel bases in the Hoth system, inadvertently detecting ... Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
Film
The Impossible
Cinema’s great trick is that it lets us live more lives than a sack full of Hindu cats. From the safety of a darkened auditorium we can go to war, batt... Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights – January 2013
January's clubbing highlights, including Afrocentric Black Acre star Romare at Highlife, Hans Bouffmyhre at Trash!, Alex Smoke at Oddio, the Weatherall-approved Crimes of the Future, Riton at Bleep, and RL Grime at Winess Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – January 2013
In a busy start to your crisp new gig calendar; Dinosaur Jr, Young Fathers, United Fruit and The Computers are just a few to scribble under January 2013 Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – January 2013
Having survived the twin assaults of the Mayan apocalypse (that’s the last time we’ll mention it, honest) and the rather more realistic threat of... Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
Music
The Metal Column – January 2012
If you're reading this, you made it. Looks like those Mayans were wrong, eh, droogs? Well, what did you expect? Those losers didn't even have the power of th... Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
Art
A Bogan Abroad: How to Change the World
ECONOMY, a major group show at CCA and Stills, aims to provoke public discussion. Our resident Aussie art critic unpicks the meaning of socially engaged art Read more »| 01 Jan 2013 -
Film
Jack Reacher
While watching Jack Reacher, one gets the impression there’s a great satire to be made from Lee Child’s meat-headed crime series about a m... Read more »| 26 Dec 2012 -
Film
Dark Nature
The novelty value of a slasher film set in Scotland isn't enough to save Marc de Launay's confusing misfire. A sour-faced family of luvvies have a miser... Read more »| 25 Dec 2012