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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BooksPaulina & Fran by Rachel B. Glaser
Paulina and Fran are struggling with art school. Paulina pretends to be an artist, to her everything is art – maintaining her hair, trying on dead peop... Read more »| 01 Jan 2016 -
Film
The Danish Girl
The performances are what sustains Tom Hooper's beautiful but buttoned-up The Danish Girl A fictionalized account of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, Tom Hoop... Read more »| 01 Jan 2016 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – January 2016
This month's film column begins and ends with a trivia question. In between there's the best of January's film happenings, including a chance to experience Rotterdam Film Festival from the comfort of your local cinema. Read more »| 31 Dec 2015 -
MusicHinds – Leave Me Alone
What a year Hinds had. 2015 saw the Madrid garage-rockers explode onto the international scene, scooping up fancy festival slots with tracks like Bamboo, and... Read more »| 31 Dec 2015 -
MusicGuadalupe Plata – Guadalupe Plata
The kind of record that leaves you feeling you need a bath, Guadalupe Plata is beyond dirty. A scuzzed-up, howlaround, frenzied fusing of blues forms and pun... Read more »| 30 Dec 2015 -
MusicPete Astor – Spilt Milk
Following last year’s dabblings in kraut-out dubtronica with Ellis Island Sound, Pete Astor returns to what he does best: serenading us with simple, we... Read more »| 30 Dec 2015
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Books
Golden Years by Ali Eskandarian
Singer, songwriter and novelist Ali Eskandarian's Golden Years is exactly what the literary scene needs. Claimed by Eskandarian himself as an 'Iranian-Americ... Read more »| 29 Dec 2015 -
Books
Demanding Democracy by Christopher Silver
The central argument of Christopher Silver’s excellent book Demanding Democracy: The Case for a Scottish Media is twofold: every nation is held togethe... Read more »| 29 Dec 2015 -
Film
Daddy’s Home
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg's talents are wasted in this lame bro-com Read more »| 26 Dec 2015 -
ClubsNew Year's Eve 2015: Manchester Parties
Here are some of the best New Year's Eve parties in Manchester to help you avoid Jools Holland’s Hootenanny at all costs… Read more »| 23 Dec 2015 -
Film
Ricki and the Flash
Working from a screenplay by Diablo Cody, Ricki and the Flash feels like a compendium of director Jonathan Demme’s career trademarks. In setup and exec... Read more »| 22 Dec 2015 -
Books
Scottish Books: On our Radar for 2016
Taking a loose and healthy approach to nationhood, we look forward to the Scottish books being served up in the coming months. New novels from big hitters Irvine Welsh and James Kelman, challenging sophomore works, award-winning debuts and hidden gems. Read more »| 22 Dec 2015 -
Film
The 22 Must-See Films of 2016
From The Hateful Eight to the new Ghostbusters, these are the films we're most looking forward to in 2016 The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) Released 8 ... Read more »| 22 Dec 2015 -
Music
The Skinny's Top 10 Articles of 2015
Emerging filmmaking, cutting-edge comedy, playlists from rock royalty and delicious pizza – here are our most popular articles from the last twelve months Read more »| 22 Dec 2015 -
Music
The Skinny Review of 2015
The Skinny team look back on 2015; it was a year of monumental art, genre-bending comedy, myth-shattering in the world of film, and one or two parties Read more »| 22 Dec 2015