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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FilmAaron Katz: Mumblecore Comes In From The Cold
Aaron Katz, the talented director behind mumblecore hits Dance Party USA and Quiet City, discusses his new film Cold Weather Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
TheatreChouf Ouchouf: A Taste of the Medina
The Skinny talks to Crying Out Loud's Artistic Director Rachel Clare about Moroccan acrobatics ahead of their nationwide tour of Chouf Ouchouf Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
TheatreRent @ Church Hill Theatre
Everybody needs help... Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
TheatrePandas
With a script by one of Scotland's busiest playwrights, Pandas is a comic thriller that reaches from Edinburgh to China. Three couples get tangled up in stolen Chinese rugs, broken hearts and murder in a genre-defying adventure into the underground of lust and crime.Director Rebecca Gatward explains all Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
Film
The Be All and End All
As if adolescence isn’t difficult enough, The Be All and End All does a commendable job in giving perspective to teenage trials within the much broader... Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: April Horoscopes
ARIES April sees you drift so far up shit creek you're desperately attempting to sculpt a jobby paddle out of handfuls of floating faeces before Mt. Shit er... Read more »| 05 Apr 2011
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Theatre
Theatre Venue of the Month: The Arches
Perhaps thanks to the credit crunch, Glasgow's performance landscape is shifting. The Arches usually begins its push for Behaviour around this time - the annual jamboree of international experimental work. Yet this year, it has focused on local, emerging artists, leaving May free for the Tron's festival Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
Music
Prefuse 73 – The Only She Chapters
Followers of Guillermo Scott Herren’s work as leftfield electronica conjurer Prefuse 73 will naturally expect the unexpected, but his latest full-lengt... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
Music
Ancient Astronauts - Into Bass and Time
Hip hop, in recent years, has brought us grime, crunk, hyphy and footwork. Producers like Missy Elliot, Timbaland, Kanye, Jay-Z, The Neptunes, Wiley and Ti... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
Music
Cry Parrot presents: John Maus @ Mono, 29 March
The loop pedal artisan is becoming a busy genre in its own right, but Remember Remember’s Graeme Ronald, performing solo tonight, is comfortably ahead ... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
ArtRachel Adams: Papering Over The Cracks
The Skinny finds Rachel Adams' solo show at The Duchy looks set to make a splash Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
Theatre
Ovid's Metamorphoses @ Tron
It's wonderful to see a group of people who are not only willing, but who are actually able to completely disregard the limitations of genre: performers who ... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
Theatre
Mother Courage @ The Tron
In a time when the arts are under threat, and political unrest is both fashionable and necessary, Birds of Paradise intelligently revive Brecht's celebrated ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2011 -
Music
Starter For Eleven: Adam Goldberg
Facing a pop quiz on the phenomenon of the actor turned musician, Adam Goldberg battles for his supper Read more »| 02 Apr 2011 -
Music
Low – C'mon
Low have been making beautiful albums for almost two decades now, but ninth effort C’mon may stand as their most gorgeous yet. The Minnesota trio have ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011