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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Theatre
Staging Justice: Karen Torley speaks on Johnny Brown's "A Letter from Death Row"
Theatre is a powerful instrument: a play can move and enrage its audience, reveal hidden truths, inform and counter-inform. Think about Dario Fo's political ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Fresh Air
Fresh Air is going to take over the world. Now you know the plan, you must die. But first, in the well-worn megalomaniac tradition, let us reveal to you the ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicFoxFace - Optimo - 12th February 2006
Performing their most powerful gig to date, FoxFace led yet another packed night at this infamous Glasgow hot spot with punters revving their engines in anti... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Clubs
Reverend Funk, The Caves, Edinburgh, Feb 24
Reverend Funk features two rooms seeking to provide alternative options for the crowd. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicJose Gonzalez @ The Liquid Room
A beautiful symbiosis between a man and his guitar. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Books
peas & full
peasthere are many things ishould be doing,i know(switch lights off, recyclebatteries, ownsex toys, wearhemp)and not doing(eat meat, readmagazines, giggle,fu... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006
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Books
Big Word Poetry
Events like Big Word are changing the way poetry is understood, and ushering it into the mainstream. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Books
One City - Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh
The proceeds from this thin volume, featuring Edinburgh's most popular contemporary authors, will go to the One City Trust, which aims to tackle social injus... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Books
Justina Robson - Living Next Door to the God of Love
In a multi-dimensional future, the fate of human kind and the universe is up for grabs in a showdown between the schismatic, shape-changing Jalaeka and the o... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Books
Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men
The plot twists in unexpected ways, pushing back against conventions of justice or happy endings Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Books
Ismail Kadare - The Successor
An atmospheric, gripping mystery, infused with awareness of the place and its people. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Clubs
The Beautiful Newborn Children, Dffrnt Trouble, Cabaret Voltaire, Jan 20
Packed to the gunnels with Kerosene and angst
WEB ONLY - asap please alex! Thanks Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Clubs
Olav Basoski, Progression at Liquid Rooms Edinburgh, Jan 28
Tonight proved to have a frighteningly effective result on the shape-throwing punters
WEB ONLY pls alex, up as soon as you can
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Bram Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicInfrasound - 'Out Of Order'
An odious stench of plagiarism percolates through every track. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicBe your own Pet - Let's Get Sandy
leaves you quite bored àquite a fete for a tune that only lasts for a minute Read more »| 15 Feb 2006