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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BooksAnd The Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis
Last January, Yanis Varoufakis was catapulted from a quiet life as an economics professor into the centre of the eurozone crisis, as finance minister in Gree... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
FilmScottish Film Event Highlights – April 2016
It's anarchy in our cinemas this month, with blood, radicalism and alchemy on our screens courtesy of Dead by Dawn, the Radical Film Festival and the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
FilmCouple in a Hole
A mysterious study in the devastating power of loss Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights – April 2016
Our rundown of this month's best nights in Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
MusicJohn Carpenter – Lost Themes II
There's always a strong sense of trepidation when it comes to approaching any sequel; difficult to supress the scepticism that it's not the usual indolent of... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Film
Eureka
Nicolas Roeg's underappreciated Eureka, starring Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke and Joe Pesci, comes to Blu-ray Read more »| 30 Mar 2016
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Film
Rocco and His Brothers
Luchino Visconti epic family saga gets its first Blu-ray release, from Masters of Cinema Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Music
Composer-Curator: Isabel Jones and Duncan Chapman
As part of new music charity Sound and Music's Composer-Curator programme, Isabel Jones and Duncan Chapman are touring White Cane – an explor... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Music
The Duke Spirit @ Deaf Institute, 23 Mar
Four years since they last pitched up round here, no new material to promote, and for the first time in living memory touts ply their greasy wares outside De... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Art
Stewart Home: The Unquotable Interview
The esoterically erudite Stewart Home walks us through the influences for his upcoming Glasgow International exhibition Re-Enter the Dragon, at Queens Park Railway Club. Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
MusicColin Stetson – SORROW
Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 is a masterpiece of minimalism. It makes sense, then, that a fellow master of the minimal – avant-garde saxo... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Music
Parquet Courts – Human Performance
After last year’s wilfully difficult Monastic Living EP, you’d be forgiven for expecting Parquet Courts’ latest full-length album to take a... Read more »| 29 Mar 2016 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 29 March - 4 April
This week, catch Dovecot Gallery's dancing carpet ballet, the Rhubaba choir, and a chance to read through Kevin Harman's legal correspondence after smashing Collective Gallery's window six years ago. Read more »| 29 Mar 2016 -
Music
Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
Give or take a month, it’s been ten years since Frightened Rabbit put out the first run of Sing the Greys on the tiny Hits the Fan label. It seems pert... Read more »| 29 Mar 2016 -
Music
September Girls – Age of Indignation
2014's Cursing the Sea did just enough to flag the potential of this Dublin five piece: their shadowy debut was sharply styled but that winning aesthetic alo... Read more »| 28 Mar 2016