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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FilmHero Worship: Brian De Palma
"I came for the naked school girls, I stayed for De Palma's baroque brilliance." Film editor Jamie Dunn gives us an insight into his adoration of Brian de Palma Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
ArtStop the Presses: September
FINAL FESTIVAL: It didn’t quite fit in this issue, but we would still like to recommend Kaleidoscope Festival on the weekend 30 Sep-2 Oct at Kinkell Fa... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – September 2011
Coercing Chad VanGaalen, self-pronounced 'worst critic in the world', into dissecting the month’s singles is no easy task Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Books
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
This earthy tale is set at a 1970s Virginia racetrack, in the deeply unglamorous, chancy world of claiming races. A ragtag band of characters survive... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Music
Nurses – Dracula
If you find Animal Collective awesome in theory but too obtuse in reality, Nurses offer a safer, less pioneering alternative. They specialise in dub-psych do... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
FilmSeptember Film Highlights
The DCA in Dundee is showing a wide range of classic movies this month, all worth seeing on the big screen, including three films from Ealing Studios. The Br... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011
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Music
Sound Lab: Chemikal Engineering
As if seminal Glasgow label Chemikal Underground hasn’t given enough to the world of music, its Chem 19 studio will be playing host to Sound Lab Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Art
Ruth Ewan @ DCA
Where art meets history may be the most appropriate way to summarise Ruth Ewan’s enlightening and often wonderfully nostalgic collection of objects, in... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Music
Trips and Falls – People Have to Be Told
Managing Trips and Falls, Preventing Trips and Falls, Avoid Trips and Falls, How to Reduce Trips and Falls… a cursory googling and it appears the whol... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Theatre
Greek: An opera based on Steven Berkoff's play @ The Traverse
Opera Greek style Read more »| 31 Aug 2011 -
MusicPAWS: Smells Like Something Else
While PAWS might conveniently fit the bill for a grunge revival, the Glasgow trio have a few more tricks up their sleeves Read more »| 31 Aug 2011 -
Music
Chemikal Underground's Emma Pollock on the Sony/PIAS blaze
Emma Pollock reacts to last month's Sony/PIAS Distribution Warehouse fire, which obliterated stock belonging to countless independent labels in the wake of the London riots, and explains the repercussions for the record industry Read more »| 31 Aug 2011 -
Music
Flogging Molly @ The Garage, 25 August
If there's one thing Flogging Molly are good at, it's pulling in a diverse crowd. Leathered and studded punks, muscle freaks, kilted hellions; they're all he... Read more »| 31 Aug 2011 -
Music
The Bronx/Mariachi El Bronx @ The Garage, 26 August
When Silver or Lead is introduced as “a bit of a rattlesnake”, make no mistake – it’s the bit that bites Read more »| 31 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: September Horoscopes
ARIES Your trackie bottoms become so far stuck up your crack this month your hungry arse begins to digest polyester and your cells start to reconstitute the... Read more »| 31 Aug 2011