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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Books
Creative Writing - 'Mad Aunt's Tea Party'
By a wooden garden table and chairs, there sits a mad auntClip-shears freely wander the chairsDrops of vodka make a warm journey from the glassTo the gullets... Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Books
The Man Who Knew Too Much - David Leavitt
it borrows too heavily from other works to ever really become the unique and accessible biography it aims to be Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The Fate of the Artist - Eddie Campbell
it hardly reads as something soul-baring enough to deserve a larger audience Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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Deogratias - J.P. Stassen
it might just change your perception of both comic books and the genocide Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Books
A.L.I.E.E.E.N. - Lewis Trondheim
If I accept 'A.L.I.E.E.E.N.'s central conceit - that it is an alien comic book, discovered in a crater in the American Catskills - then the first observation... Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Books
Clear Water - Will Ashon
Ashon's confident, tragicomic prose never falters Read more »| 13 Sep 2006
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Film
A Gore-y Shocker
George W. Bush expressed doubt that he'd watch this documentary Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Film
Funny Films and Dumb Movies
Comedies for all levels of intelligence in September. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Film
Indie Film of the Month - Right At Your Door
The budget excludes distractions of CGI grandstanding and a familiar face in the lead. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Film
Laura Linney Spotlight
Her success was a long time in coming. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Film
Too Soon, They Cry
One can never quite shake the feeling that Hollywood is just filling its coffers too soon after the disaster. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
MusicRobbie Williams - Rudebox
Robbie goes hip hop - God help us all Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Music
Iron Maiden - The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
all the ingredients a fan would want Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
MusicThea Gilmore - 'Harpo's Ghost'
Featuring, but certainly not starring, Mike Scott. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Music
Nuala - Shine
If you like Dido and The Corrs, chances are you'll love this Read more »| 13 Sep 2006