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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ArtDirk Bell @ The Modern Institute
What starts with a bitten apple, is followed by a star, proclamations of freedom, love and freelove? Apparently, not just the Bible but also Dirk Bell's new ... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
BooksTreblinka by Chil Rajchman
Chil Rajchman’s memoir of mass extermination in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka is unhysterical in tone, but harrowing in effect. Its spare, unsensati... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
Books
The Breakers by Claudie Gallay
Villages at the end of the earth share a degree of uniformity in that through their inhospitable settings and eccentric communities, they have an ability to ... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
MusicGruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo
A career of over fifteen years recording music has provided irrefutable evidence of one thing – Gruff Rhys knows his way around a tune, and Hotel Shamp... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
MusicThe Streets – Computers and Blues
The Streets’ Mike Skinner has been on a downer ever since releasing Original Pirate Material in 2002, but then no-one bothered. His melancholic parable... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
Music
Zoey Van Goey – Propeller Versus Wings
Expanded to a four-piece since debut The Cage Was Unlocked All Along, Zoey Van Goey’s launch Propeller Versus Wings with the atypically serious Mountai... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011
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Music
Conquering Animal Sound – Kammerspiel
The sight of woodland shards in the artwork, and the sound of Maschine trickling into life via stuttering bells, syncopated handclaps and double-tracked voca... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
Music
Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Live
Any discussion of Tom Tom Club is inevitably presaged by acknowledging that the band were essentially a side-project of Talking Heads, having been formed dur... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
Music
The Tall Ships – On Tariffs and Discovery
The Tall Ships sophomore album sees the US three-piece continue to hone their indie-art-rock compositions with explorative arrangements and understated produ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011 -
Film
The Town
In his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck returned to the working class milieu of his breakthrough role in Good Will Hunting (which he co-wrote w... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011 -
Film
Man Hunt
Tired of four-legged prey, legendary hunter Captain Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) sets his sights on bigger game, sneaking behind German lines to acquire Hitler... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011 -
TheatreMove @ ABC
Tony Mills is not only one of the hardest working dancers in Scotland, he is almost one of the most restless. When not painting his body white for some Butoh... Read more »| 23 Jan 2011 -
Music
Emily Jane White – Ode To Sentience
Releasing her third album in as many years, Californian Emily Jane White’s prolific nature is matched only by her strict adherence to the purist folk c... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
Film
The Switch
“It's how everybody's doing it these days.” So says Debbie (Lewis) of the 'I'm getting pregnant party' during which her friend Kassie (Aniston) w... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
Music
Chapel Club – Palace
On their debut, London-based five-piece Chapel Club offer up a remarkably accomplished take on the kind of stadium rock-meets-Joy Division sound familiar to ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011