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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Film
Summer Palace SKINNYFest
The personal and the political often snuggle up on screen, but rarely can they have made such sweet love as in this beautiful, arresting epic from China. In ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Film
Princess - SKINNYFEST 2
Most people spend their Christmas holidays indoors, gleefully combing the hair of their new My Little Pony collection. Sadly for the girl gang in Princess th... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Film
loudQUIETloud: A Film About The Pixies
Without a polo-neck wearing shrink in sight Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Film
Cargo
The word 'great' is bandied around far too frequently these days, but 'Cargo' really deserves the tag. This film is a great big pile of rubbish. Chris (Danie... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Fence Collective @ Smirnoff Underbelly, 16 Aug
This was KC's night and he just wasn't having a good one Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Show me the Money, Mark
let loose man, I love that shit! Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Theatre
Bussman's Holiday @ The Assembly Rooms
The comic relief adequately facilitates the communication of what would have, at least in part, been an otherwise harrowing tale Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Comedy
Doug Stanhope, Worst
Doug Stanhope is a prophet. While our pathetic minds are anaesthetised, allowing us to live in the world, he just can't switch his off! He sees things as the... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Comedy
Doug Stanhope @ George Square Theatre
The writer and free-thinker Aldous Huxley observed that "experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him". This a use... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Clubs
SkinnyFest 2 - Fat Wednesday, The Caves, Aug 16/23
A special partnership in new music promotion in Edinburgh, Trouble and Departure Lounge, bring you Fat Wednesday at the Baby Belly every week of the festival... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Comedy
David O'Doherty @ Assembly Rooms
There are few comedians less offensive than David O'Doherty. A gentle Irish lad in a baseball cap, always armed with his trusty Yamaha, he appears to offer a... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Clubs
Pins and Needles @ Red Vodka Club, August 18
Pins and Needles represent the new generation of promoters, trying out something different in smaller venues and with much success. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Comedy
Toulson and Harvey @ Pleasance Courtyard
obvious zeal, but struggling to take flight Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Comedy
Dylan Moran @ The Usher Hall, 8 Aug
At his most dastardly, like Connolly of old, Dylan Moran commands the stage with a cool affability. As such, it's no wonder he so quickly transcended the Por... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Comedy
Ed Byrne @ Pleasance Courtyard
Ed Byrne possesses some of the best qualities for success as a comedian. Funny, charming and Irish, he is separated from others on the circuit by his tangibl... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006