Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
FilmThe Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec on DVD
Sold as a Romancing the Stone-style action-adventure pastiche on its cinematic release, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec is closer in t... Read more »| 09 Aug 2011 -
ComedyHero Worship: Jeffrey Lewis by Josie Long
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Josie Long gets all tongue-tied over anti-folk hero Jeffrey Lewis Read more »| 09 Aug 2011 -
Music
Stop The Presses! August Newsbites
CHEMIKAL SOLUTION: At time of going to press, the minds behind Glasgow recording institution Chem19 have just announced 'Engineering & Production in Prac... Read more »| 09 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Three-way Jigsaw
Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat Luurtsema: like something out of your Nan's free catalogues Read more »| 09 Aug 2011 -
Theatre
The Monster in the Hall
No Bullshit for Young People Read more »| 09 Aug 2011 -
Film
Project Nim
In 1967, The Jungle Book’s King Louie sang “an ape like me, can learn to be human too”. Six years later, Professor Herb Terrace indirectly ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011
-
MusicRemi Kabaka – Black Goddess: The Soundtrack from Ole Balogun’s Film
It’s a given that all things eventually return to fashion, and the 70s is no exception. Some, like the carwash climax of Black Belt Jones, deserve to b... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011 -
Music
Stephen Malkmus: Man in the Mirror
Erstwhile Pavement frontman and de facto Jicks leader Stephen Malkmus ponders the imagery behind Mirror Traffic Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
Music
The Dead Man's Waltz: "We’re blurring that line between audience and band"
Accordionist Leighton Jones explains why folk-noir revivalists The Dead Man’s Waltz are bringing Vaudevillian theatre to their compelling live show Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
Music
Wickerman 2011
Now in its tenth year, The Wickerman Festival is no longer a fledgling on the circuit. Back in the early days, it’s unlikely the organisers would have ... Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
Art
Peles Empire: Carmen Sylva @ Sierra Metro, 7 Aug-11 Sep
Peles Empire is a collaboration between London-Based German artists Katharina Stoever and Barbara Wolff. An ongoing project, Peles Empire takes its name from... Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
Film
Citizen Nim: An interview with James Marsh
Raised in 70s New York bohemia, Project Nim's eponymous chimp really was the king of the swingers. We speak to Man on Wire director James Marsh about his latest documentary Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
Art
National Museum of Scotland Reopens
It was a scene that would have had Jeff Goldblum’s heart racing. A little after 9am, on a temperate Friday morning in Edinburgh, a Tyrannosaurus Rex ca... Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – August 2011
With a range of middling-to-shite singles from some of the big guns, it’s down to the wee guys and girls to bring the goods this August Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
FilmSuper 8
Young buck Joe (Joel Courtney) and his chums witness a horrendous, deliberate train-wreck whilst shooting their zero-budget zombie splatterfest on the eponym... Read more »| 03 Aug 2011