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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FilmThe Spiderwick Chronicles
Not bad of its type. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
The Easy Gramophone - March
5 free songs you can legally download, listen to and love
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MusicMeshuggah - ObZen
That trademark throaty bass sound lurks behind the mayhem with brutal intent. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Tapes n Tapes - Hang Them All
A surging, limb-flinging offering from a band to be welcomed home like a long lost cousin. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Cave hasn't lost his charm. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
MusicJohnny Foreigner - Our Bipolar Friends
Catch "JoFo" before they either exhaust themselves or explode into flames Read more »| 06 Mar 2008
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MusicDillinger Escape Plan @ Cathouse, 15 Feb
Unrelenting, ferocious entertainment. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Black Francis - Svn Fngrs
Stands proundly in the Black Francis oeuvre. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
A Silver Mt. Zion: Hi, How Are You, Efrim Menuck?
Paul Mitchell's clearly freestyling as he gives the Montreal based lynchpin of A Silver Mt. Zion and Godspeed You! Black Emperor a bell to ask... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Theatre
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair tweaks the traditional 'boy meets girl' scenario into girl meets boy, girl meets another boy, and another boy... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Frightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off
A bold new year's resolution made hymnal Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Holy Fuck @ Stereo
A musical hormone imbalance that will turn you into a sweaty convulsing mess whether you like it or not Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - March
From soft-rock stadium rockers to pan-continental beat plunderers, Nick Mitchell rakes around The Skinny's mail bag for that golden single Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Books
The Happiest Man in the World by Alec Wilkinson
It is a little underwhelming that Wilkinson's style is so consistently considered Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Film
Once DVD Review
The sleeper hit of last year. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008