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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MusicBad Religion - New Maps Of Hell
It still trumps many a pretender Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Clubs
Hearts Revolution - C.Y.O.A!/Domino Effect/Prism Effect
If Tiga, C.S.S, Peaches, and Atari Teenage Riot joined forces, the result would most likely be the NY duo, Hearts Revolution Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Clubs
Aesop Rock - No Story Goes Untold
Leader: Once upon a time in the days of yore, Aesop Rock painted The Skinny a picture of how creativity abounds when you turn your life upside down.
Pull Quote: ""I was trying to capture these different time periods, these moods of somebody from birth to age 30."" Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Books
Luke Wright's (FREE!) Poetry Party
Many people won't have been to see a poetry gig before. Clearly this is the place to start. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Books
Things from the Past by Steven Deighan
The book has its charm, but not enough to gloss over the adolescent fantasies and clunky style. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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The Howling Miller, by Arto Paasilinna
A deceptively simple fable concerning exploitation, corruption and narrow-mindedness Read more »| 09 Aug 2007
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Books
The Apple by Michel Faber
Each story in The Apple works - as stories should - as a complete narrative. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville
A delving portrait into a family history of convicts and chain-gangs. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Saturday's Child by Ray Banks
A Northern England of incest, alcoholism, drug abuse and casual violence Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville
Lilian's Story was Grenville's first novel, recently reissued. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
Kids will love this, adults will pretend they don't but will anyway. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
Bukowski combines the clash of creative processes and a business-orientated world with a seedy portrait of 1980s Los Angeles. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Dear Laura: Letters from a Mother to her Daughter
Incites powerful emotions of pain and freedom Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Exit Wounds - Rutu Modan
Mysteries are not entirely solved, the plot is not predictable, and more than one unlikely romance emerges. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Donkey Punch by Ray Banks
his hardboiled writing style has become more poised and confident. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007