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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ArtGSA Degree Show 2016: Design
From class and cultural identity to pressing humanitarian concerns, there's a wealth of ideas on display in the ever-diverse field of Design Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
BooksThe North's best indie bookshops
To mark Independent Bookshop Week (18-25 June), we selected some of our favourite independent book stores in the North and suggested some titles you could re... Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
Comedy
Is the Edinburgh Fringe too small?
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme was launched to a chorus of disappointment last week, as it was discovered that the Fringe has shrunk in size. Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
MusicMichael Tanner – Suite For Psaltery and Dulcimer
Michael Tanner makes remarkably elegant and literate folk music which derives inspiration from an imagined future as much as from a reimagined past. Suite Fo... Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
MusicWarpaint to open Liverpool Music Week
Warpaint will head the line-up for this year's Liverpool Music Week, as part of a string of UK tour dates this autumn. Warpaint play the Liverpool Music Wee... Read more »| 14 Jun 2016 -
Art
Manchester School of Art Degree Show 2016
Manchester School of Art boasts one of the largest offerings of art and design courses in the UK. The annual degree show is its opportunity to present this v... Read more »| 14 Jun 2016
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Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 14-20 June
It's a week of big events with Print Festival Scotland 2016 and Embassy Annuale 2016 Read more »| 14 Jun 2016 -
Art
Alice Myers: The Skinny Showcase
Between 2012 and 2014, photographer Alice Myers traveled backward and forward to Calais, where she worked with migrants and refugees who were attempting to cross the Channel. Read more »| 13 Jun 2016 -
Books
Literary event highlights in the North: June 2016
There's something for everyone in this month's roundup of literary events and readings across the North – whether you're interested in the backstr... Read more »| 10 Jun 2016 -
MusicWhitney – Light Upon The Lake
Retrophobiacs look away now: Max Kakacek and Julian Ehrlich of the glam-rock cribbing Smith Westerns have returned, except this time they’ve dialed the... Read more »| 10 Jun 2016 -
Music
Deerhoof – The Magic
So you’re one of your generation’s most hyper-creative and hard-to-pin-down acts, riding a hot streak that lasts well over half of your 20-year-p... Read more »| 10 Jun 2016 -
Music
Kate Jackson & The Wrong Moves @ The Hug and Pint, 4 June
Whoever released Kaspar Hauser from their box is certain to be looking sheepish. Loud, unctuous, and wielding darkwave hooks straight out of some 1983 nether... Read more »| 09 Jun 2016 -
Music
Zyna Hel @ The Hug and Pint, Glasgow, 3 June
Whisper it, but there’s something of the am-dram to tonight. Which sounds catty and mealy-mouthed when it isn’t designed to be; it’s just t... Read more »| 09 Jun 2016 -
Books
Three Craws by James Yorkston
They say write what you know, and James Yorkston clearly understands the terrain of his debut novel Three Craws, set in the East Neuk of Fife. Biographical d... Read more »| 08 Jun 2016 -
Books
Fighting Prejudice on the Page: Women in Comics
The illustrated world is maligned for its depiction of women on the page. Ahead of her appearance at Glasgow Comic Con, celebrated comic author and artist Kate Leth explains what's changing and why Read more »| 08 Jun 2016