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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BooksTell Me a Story...
Stories and tales, poems and ceilidhs, Music and dancing and opera for babies! There's a lot going on at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
FilmThe Greatest
When titular champ Bennett Brewer (Aaron Johnson) dies in a car accident, his family – including the high-school sweetheart carrying his unborn child &... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
Art
Gi picks
This year’s Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art has the theme of ‘past, present and future’, which encompasses, well, everything. So before we all start congratulating the board on coming up with such a profoundly vague concept let's see if there is substance to their ethereal musings. Here’s what The Skinny recommends Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
Music
Sparrow and the Workshop – Crystals Fall
It’s understandable that Sparrow and the Workshop want their best songs to adorn what is absolutely, definitely their debut album this time around. The... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - April 2010: WHY? Takeover
Armed with the April singles and a ghetto blaster from 1991, Dave Kerr finds WHY? frontman Yoni Wolf "pimpin" in a Glasgow hotel room decked out like Pat Butcher's knocking shop. "I don’t like much stuff," Mr Wolf cautions, "but it’s going to take something pretty serious to make me give a song the thumbs down..." Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
ArtGlasgow International Festival of Art: Better World
There are dozens of exciting shows happening in Glasgow during Gi. Here at The Skinny we're most excited about Sandy Smith offsite for SWG3 Read more »| 01 Apr 2010
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Music
Book Now: Primavera Sound
Face it: the weather can make or break a festival. You and your friends can spend almost £200 each on a ticket, plus more on camping gear, petrol and b... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
Kaned, Again.
Sarah died for your sins. Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
ClubsDeath Disco: Fenech Foreign Legion
The first lady of youthful noise Annie Mac returns to Death Disco as part of her tour, and brings Fenech Soler into her traveling circus Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
Venue of The Month
"Playwrights Studio Scotland is here to help playwrights complete their work and help theatre organisations get the best plays possible onstage." So says Creative Director, Julie Ellen Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
Music
Jaguar Love – Hologram Jams
Oozing with brash stabs of dirty synth and riddled with some truly ear-piercing, almost glam rock vocal screeches, Hologram Jams – the second album fro... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
Art
Napier Creative Industries: Film, Photography and Pigeons
A Napier Photography and Film student introduces his work Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
Why I Love Storytelling
“Storytelling is oldest art form and represents the backbone of performance, with the importance of story integral to any art-form you can think of." Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
Music
Slaraffenland - We're On Your Side
What Sigur Rós are to Iceland, Efterklang have become to Denmark; the critical darlings through whose prism outsider eyes are prone to viewing –... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
BooksThe Two Kinds of Decay
While still at college, Sarah Manguso caught what she thought was a head cold. A member of a choir with a solo in an upcoming concert, she fought it ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010