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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Music
Live Music Roundup for August
The beautiful beast that is Quasi rolls into Mono on August 23 for an all too rare appearance on these shores Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Rumble Strips - Hate Me/Girls & Weather (Transgressive) **** (ALEX _ THIS IS AN OLD SINGLE BURY IT PLEASE) ****
a fun fest of sax Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
MusicThe Basement - I Just Caught A Face
yee-ha! Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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The Futureheads - Worry About it Later
The Heads' second single from News and Tributes is actually rather good Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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The Hedrons - Be My Friend
only teasing with this first single Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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The Longcut - Vitamin C
New Order meets Kevin Shields on Manchester band's newest single Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Music
Good Shoes - All In My Head
will make you want to jive like a mod before going for a Benny Hill style run around the room Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
Sir Roger Penrose
One of the most influential physicists of our time gives us the skinny on the whole damn universe. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Francis Fukuyama
One of the most influential and controversial political theorists of our time discusses the failure of American neoconservatism and the war in Iraq. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Doris Lessing
Still going strong after six decades of creative output. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
Banipal Live
Discover the rich and diverse world of Arab writing with four of the finest Arab writers working in English. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose
Shelve this one next to the Bible. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Blessed by the mark of Peel: The Crimea (SkinnyFest, Issue 1 or 2)
We were all doing terrible jobs, I was quite literally sweeping the streets outside Radio 1 Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Midlake, King Tut's, Glasgow, July 4
it's clear that these boys are music school geeks Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Ainslie Henderson @ The Lot
with enough passion and honesty to go to the moon and back Read more »| 14 Aug 2006