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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FilmEdinburgh Spanish Film Festival returns for 2024
Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival brings some of Spain's most exciting recent filmmaking to Scotland – we look at this year's programme Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
BooksThe Great When by Alan Moore
The undisputed king of comic books returns with a new novel set between two different worlds Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
MusicGodspeed You! Black Emperor – NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024, 28,340 DEAD
Godspeed You! Black Emperor's latest album, in all of its warped, noisy instrumentation, is the embodiment of music as art Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
FilmScottish Film Events: October 2024
In Scotland's cinemas this October, high-octane action films, cinema of the surreal, a load of scary movies and, perhaps, too many film festivals Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
BooksBuilding bridges with Scottish International Storytelling Festival
The connective power of storytelling is at the heart of the 35th Scottish International Storytelling Festival, with its theme of Bridges Between. We chat with the head programmer and performers about what it means to tear down walls and build bridges Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: October 2024
Some top picks for spooky season courtesy of Edinburgh Horror Festival, plus a whole host of other theatrical highlights in our October round-up Read more »| 30 Sep 2024
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MusicYasmin Williams – Acadia
Yasmin Williams’ follow-up to 2021’s Urban Driftwood is an ambitious record that showcases the guitarist’s wide range of musical influences Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
BooksScottish Books Events: October 2024
As autumn sets in, there's a plethora of book launches, workshops and readings to get stuck into – here's our October book events guide Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: October 2024
It’s cold outside, but the clubs are only just heating up. October’s top club picks include The Hacker, Machinedrum, Pinch, Beatrice M. & Ema, and Daniel Avery Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
ComedyScottish Comedy Highlights: October 2024
October’s a jam-packed month for comedy fans across the Central Belt with comedy celebrating Black History Month, some alt comedy legends and a spooky standout for the whole family Read more »| 27 Sep 2024 -
MusicSpotlight On... Zerrin
With the video for Zerrin's latest single Spring Cleaning released today, we catch up with the Glasgow-based Australian artist to find out more Read more »| 26 Sep 2024 -
FilmSubversive Shorts: How Eastern Bloc animators evaded Soviet censors
This year's Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival opens with a programme of animation made during the tail end of Soviet rule. Czech filmmaker Michaela Pavlátová tells us how artistic freedom and creativity for animation flourished during this era Read more »| 24 Sep 2024 -
MusicPale Waves – Smitten
Capturing the kaleidoscopic array of feelings of queer love across a collection of earworms, Pale Waves’ fourth album may be the band’s most complete package to date Read more »| 24 Sep 2024 -
BooksIntermezzo by Sally Rooney
In her masterful fourth novel Intermezzo, Sally Rooney conveys the tangles of grief and desire through the relationship between two brothers Read more »| 24 Sep 2024 -
MusicNina Nesbitt – Mountain Music
Mountain Music represents a genre-shift for Nina Nesbitt, a record that showcases her vocals more than her previous pop-oriented records ever did Read more »| 24 Sep 2024