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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Art
Milestone @ ECA
My first thought is "Am I early?" Day four of the Milestone exhibition and the sculptures sit as large lumps of shapeless rock. However, the whiz of chainsaw... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Art
Bob & Roberta Smith @ The Grey Gallery
Hawke and Hunter is an unusual venue but currently the ideal choice for those desperately seeking midnight encounters with art. Turn a blind eye to the bling... Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Clubs
Frogs Are Electric
Numbers and Optimo have brainstormed and come up with something fresh and exciting for the more discerning music lover this Bank Holiday weekend. Read more »| 18 Aug 2009 -
Books
Ewan Morrison Speaks.
Four books in five years is an impressive standard for any successful author. Ewan Morrison seems to have made up for lost time in writing fiction. Starting with a collection of short stories followed by two novels, Ewan’s most recent release – Ménage – set in the Young British Artist scene of 90s London sees three characters engage in an enveloping ménage a trois. In an undisturbed university room in the heart of Glasgow, Ewan talks about the book and the engine that runs it. Read more »| 17 Aug 2009 -
Comedy
Janeane Garofalo
There is, unfortunately for the glib reviewer, no-one to compare Garofalo too. There’s people in there, for sure – possibly one too many for her ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009 -
Comedy
Rhod Gilbert
I want to like Rhod Gilbert. I really do. He seems like, well, a really nice guy. There’s no doubt he’s original, that he throws every ounce of e... Read more »| 16 Aug 2009
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Theatre
Visiting Luxury: Scottish Dance Theatre
A couple of solid and accessible pieces come from Dundee's nationally renowned company. Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Comedy
I like my comedy...to be something a bit new: Universal Comedy
Universal Comedy was set up in 2004 to use comedy to help people with health difficulties - both physical and mental. They teach comedy skills at training c... Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
Film
Sin Nombre
Cary Fukunaga’s debut feature occupies that, often inhospitable, terrain between socio-political gangster-chase-flick and quietly nuanced love story. S... Read more »| 14 Aug 2009 -
Music
Misty Roses - Villainess
Phil Spector’s influence lives on in this swooping ’60s-style orchestral pop that fans of Richard Hawley or the Last Shadow Puppets will lap up. ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2009 -
Comedy
I like my comedy...veteran Fringe: Teddy
We wanted to put Teddy in the ‘bitter’ category but somehow couldn’t find anyone else to match up to his levels. He tells us he ‘hate... Read more »| 12 Aug 2009 -
Music
David Byrne @ Edinburgh Playhouse, 8 Aug
At first, the dance routines aren’t quirky, merely irritating, superfluous, technically average and maybe just a tad pretentious. Suddenly, perhaps dur... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
Theatre
No Obvious Trauma
Madness and love: Unpacked play spot the patient and doctor in a role-reversal melodrama. Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
Music
Dave Cloud and the Gospel of Power - Fever
Dave Cloud might now resemble an off-season Santa Claus, but his sound is anything but festive. The portly, bearded Nashville veteran is in the vein of myste... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
Theatre
White Tea
David Leddy is part of the West End Festival, yet remains an artist apart. Read more »| 10 Aug 2009