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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TheatreBreathing Corpses @ Victoria Baths, Manchester
Young Manchester-based company Fresh Loaf are the latest to take on Lauren Wade’s award-winning drama Breathing Corpses, set in the (very atmospheric) ... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
MusicHow To Dress Well offer mix featuring Deafheaven, Grimes and Mariah Carey
Ethereal R&B producer Tom Krell, alias How To Dress Well, has produced a new 30-minute mix for US clothing brand Safe House USA. Featuring exclusive edit... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
BooksPilgrim's Flower by Rachael Boast
Rachael Boast’s first collection, Sidereal, won the Forward Prize for best debut and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize, so her second has a lot... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Books
Letters of Note by Shaun Usher
Based on the website of the same name, Letters of Note is a compilation of 125 letters that truly runs the epistolary gamut. There are, of course, a fair few... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Books
The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble
Anna is a girl with a sunny temperament, trusts strangers without hesitation, and wins medals for her doggy paddling: ‘Anna was born happy, a pure gold... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Theatre
A Play, A Pie And A Pint: Guilty @ Oran Mor
Warning: some stories don’t have happy endings. Before there was Disney, the Brothers Grimm collected fairytales from the oral tradition of storytellin... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013
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FilmNorthwest Film Event Highlights – December 2013
‘Tis the season to gorge on movies you’ve seen a million times before, but this month’s film calendar isn’t all nostalgia. Cornerhouse serve a slice of alternative Yuletide cinema, while San Diego’s premier newsreader pitches up at MediaCityUK Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Film
Big Bad Wolves
Israeli writer-directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado followup their 2010 debut Rabies with another tar-black comic horror. While investigating a seri... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Film
The Conjuring
A mirrored music box out of which trickles stilted, lilting lullabies. Blindfold games of hide-and-seek. An unknown hand, an exposed ankle, the dead of night... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Film
Scotland Film Events Highlights - December 2013
Yes, it’s nearly Chrimbo, but thankfully it’s not all dewy-eye nostalgia on this month's film horizon. The GFT serve gothic horror, the Cameo screen some non-festive classics and Nordic Film Festival proves the regions home to more than just Santa Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Film
Kill Your Darlings
The Beats have had a resurgence of late; Hollywood presumably believes their vibrant defiance can strike a chord with this century’s more indolent... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Comedy
Adam Buxton: Kernel Panic @ Gorilla, Manchester, 30 Nov
Adam Buxton’s latest show Kernel Panic is similar to his regular BUG shows, but while it does cover some of the same ground, it also sees him throw in ... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
TheatreBallet Boyz @ Theatre Royal
While on tour, the Ballet Boyz bring the Talent - co-produced by Sadler's Wells – to Glasgow. Having split their show into two parts, each part fo... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Theatre
Edit-Point @ City Halls
Edit-Point's latest concert Axe! may sound like it is part of an anti-bedroom tax movement or the title of a very exciting action movie, but in fact, an elec... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Film
Nebraska
All of Alexander Payne’s best and worst attributes are on full display in Nebraska. As Woody (Dern) takes a road trip to collect the million-dollar pri... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013