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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BooksForgotten Women
This month biographer Rachel Holmes will be discussing Eleanor Marx, a feminist literary translator whose legacy quickly diminished. We trace a familiar pattern of female writers linked to male prestige, and wonder why so many have been lost in history Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Theatre
The Theatre of Horror: The Haunting of Hill House
The ghost story is a Christmas tradition – but how about a Hammer horror-influenced stage show? As The Haunting of Hill House opens at Liverpool Playho... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
MusicNorthwest Music News – 3 Dec: Kiran Leonard, Howes
A new release bonanza this week, with new records out or on the way from Kiran Leonard, Howes, Locean and more. Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
MusicAucan – Stelle Fisse
Far from the shy retiring geeks of electro stereotype, Italian trio Aucan have toured incessantly over the last few years, playing over 300 shows supporting ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
FilmThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Guy Richie's big-screen adaptation of the 60s spy show fails to thrill Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Film
Guy Maddin interview: we enter The Forbidden Room
Misfit director Guy Maddin brings cinema's past to life in new film The Forbidden Room. He tells us about trying to create a sense of disinhibited wonder on ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015
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Film
The Forbidden Room
The Forbidden Room delivers exhausting and overwhelming film experience Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Books
Books for Christmas: A Literary Gift Guide
Books are the ideal gift, reflecting a certain intelligence upon the giver, and alluding with a sly wink that the recipient is the same. We look at the output of local publishers from Scotland and the Northwest to suggest the ideal literary Xmas gifts Read more »| 02 Dec 2015 -
Music
Ghostpoet @ The Art School, 25 November
The first thing you’ll notice about Ghostpoet’s performance (among a plethora of unique attributes) is that his right hand is always mid-air, miming cross stitch or occasionally picking fruit from a pear tree. Read more »| 02 Dec 2015 -
Music
Albums of 2015 (#1): Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love
Sleater-Kinney's long-awaited return re-cast an often grubby exercise as something dignified and heroic. Carrie Brownstein reflects on a special year and sets her sights on the band's future. Read more »| 02 Dec 2015 -
Music
Albums of 2015 (#2): Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
Equal measures of heartache and prettiness shaped Sufjan's photo box of memories into his most compelling album thus far Read more »| 02 Dec 2015 -
ComedyDanny Sutcliffe's Advent(ure) Calendar
Last Christmas we asked some of our favourite comedians to submit festive gags. Danny Sutcliffe submitted approximately 1000 jokes and proved himself the most Christmassy standup out there. Here's his stab at an advent calendar. We have no idea either. Read more »| 02 Dec 2015 -
Film
Films of 2015: Hippies, Road Warriors and STD Hauntings
Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »| 02 Dec 2015 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights – December 2015
This month we get festive with Ben Klock in the capital, eagerly await the return of Skatebård in Glasgow and point out the top tips for your Hogmanay outing Read more »| 01 Dec 2015 -
Film
DVD Gift Guide: What to get that cinephile in your life
Nothing says 'I'm apathetic towards your existence' more than an Amazon Gift Card. Show that cinephile in your life that you care by popping some of these movies into their Christmas stocking Read more »| 01 Dec 2015