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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Books
Blankets - Craig Thompson
A small story, so beautifully told. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Books
Black Hole - Charles Burns
A beautiful mix of fantasy and truth. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Books
5 is the Perfect Number - Igort
As atmospheric as the best film noir, filled with shadows, rain drenched alleyways, religious imagery and desperate men dwarfed by post-impressionist Toulouse-Lautrec style billboards. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicYoung People - 'All At Once' [Too Pure]
a room with muddy guitars and Katie Eastburn's brownbottle croon Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicSoledad Brothers - 'The Hardest Walk'
Songs about a relationship break-up? Well this is the blues... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
St Jude's Infirmary - Cabaret Voltaire @ Edinburgh
It's not often you leave a gig pondering the ancestral connection between Robbie and John Coltrane. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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Music
Sick Of It All and The Unseen - King Tut's @ Glasgow
live, they haven't tarnished in the slightest after two decades Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Haftor Medboe Group - The Lot @ Edinburgh
A perfect balance between sound exploration and rocking out. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
FAST feat. Park Attack / Ride This Train @ The Bongo Club
where else can you dance to Mudhoney? Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicSecret Machines - 'Ten Silver Drops'
a superb collection Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Mitchy Slick - 'Mitchy Duz It'
probably works better in South Central than southern Scotland Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Comedy
Adam Bloom
Wants to make Islam compulsory. That's controversial. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Comedy
A Comedian's Rant
This month Janey Godley lets us know why Jake Gyllenhall thinks she's hot. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Clubs
The Hacker ft. Mount Sims - Traces / Flesh & Bone (Remixes) (Goodlife)
Although it is nicely polished, it is oddly restrained Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Clubs
Homegrown Hip-Hop Heroes
The power of the word is deep; it can be living and active, and sharp as a double-edged sword. - MC Profisee, Great Ezcape
PRINT VERSION!!!! Read more »| 17 Mar 2006