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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MusicScottish Gig Highlights – April 2016
Take no heed of the doom-mongers; taps aff season is just around the corner. Chris Cornell walks in right on cue Read more »| 31 Mar 2016 -
Books
Poetry News – Scotland, April 2016
We weigh up the announcement of new Makar Jackie Kay, from both the poetry world and general public – also the published works of four Faber New Poets and our picks of the live poetry events in Scotland this month. Read more »| 31 Mar 2016 -
FilmNorthwest Film Event Highlights – April 2016
¡Viva! returns as a cross-art festival and celebrate Record Store Day with a great double bill of music-movie faves High Fidelity and Empire Records I... Read more »| 31 Mar 2016 -
Music
Cate Le Bon – Crab Day
"A coalition of inescapable feelings and fabricated nonsense," reckons Cate Le Bon of her fourth album. Difficult to argue: Crab Day is a madcap wonder, and ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2016 -
BooksWhat I Learned from Johnny Bevan by Luke Wright
With its cute couplets and wry nods to Twitter and twerking, What I Learned from Johnny Bevan reads at first like a piece from a poetry night at a good ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
MusicTim Hecker – Love Streams
Montreal's ambient drone wunderkind returns with his eighth album, and first for 4AD. Read more »| 30 Mar 2016
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Music
Kowton – Utility
Utility may be a debut, but it certainly shows no signs of inexperience. This assured first release from Bristolian native Kowton (who first popped up with a... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
TheatreTalawa Theatre on King Lear & Shakespeare at 400
As his company prepares to stage a new production of King Lear, Talawa Theatre's artistic director Michael Buffong discusses the relevance of Shakespeare to a time of division and turmoil Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Art
Glasgow International 2016 Openings: Booze Guide
A rundown of Glasgow International's first weekend opening extravaganza, with an eye on the free beers, wines and whiskeys promised around the city. GI 2016: one beer at a time Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: April 2016 Horoscopes
Mystic Mark returns with his April predictions, turning his powers to technology, the Islamic State, and your cat Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Theatre
5 Films You May Not Know Are Based on Shakespeare
From unrequited love to the circle of life, we look at some of the films (and TV) adapted from and inspired by the works of William Shakespeare Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Books
And The Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis
Last January, Yanis Varoufakis was catapulted from a quiet life as an economics professor into the centre of the eurozone crisis, as finance minister in Gree... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Film
Scottish Film Event Highlights – April 2016
It's anarchy in our cinemas this month, with blood, radicalism and alchemy on our screens courtesy of Dead by Dawn, the Radical Film Festival and the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Film
Couple in a Hole
A mysterious study in the devastating power of loss Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights – April 2016
Our rundown of this month's best nights in Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond Read more »| 30 Mar 2016