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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ArtCivic House: A 21st-Century Power Station
A former printing press for Glasgow’s political movements built in the 1920s, Civic House has been shortlisted for a prestigious AJ Retrofit Award after a radical transformation by Agile City in collaboration with Collective Architecture Read more »| 15 Mar 2023 -
ClubsThe Good Life: Glasgow's Radio Buena Vida
Fast becoming a hub for Glasgow's grassroots music and culture, we catch up with Southside-based community radio station Radio Buena Vida as they settle into their new studio and café on Victoria Road Read more »| 14 Mar 2023 -
ComedyDream Gig: Suchandrika Chakrabarti
Suchandrika Chakrabarti, stand-up and co-host of the But Is It Funny? podcast with Brian Logan and Jamal Khadar, shares her heavenly Dream Gig with us Read more »| 14 Mar 2023 -
MusicLVRA on Soft Like Steel
Ahead of releasing their latest project Soft Like Steel, we catch up with 2021 Sound of Young Scotland winner LVRA to find out more Read more »| 14 Mar 2023 -
Theatrefrisson @ Leith Arches, Edinburgh
Production Lines' frisson is a two-part, multimedia story about post-lockdown identity, capturing our current condition in humanistic fashion Read more »| 13 Mar 2023 -
FilmUkrainian musicians bring Kyiv love letter to HippFest
Ukrainian duo Roksana Smirnova and Misha Kalinin will be providing a new livescore to the poetic Kyiv documentary In Spring at this year's HippFest. They discuss the experience of representing their nation during its brutal invasion Read more »| 13 Mar 2023
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FilmSkinamarink
Skinamarink nails its analog horror atmosphere, but compared to the viral videos it's trying to emulate, it runs too long and falls too short Read more »| 13 Mar 2023 -
FilmRye Lane
There's more than a hint of Before Sunrise in Raine Allen-Miller’s mellow and vibrant romance Rye Lane, which takes a charismatic couple on a stroll through the heart of Peckham Read more »| 13 Mar 2023 -
TheatreYou Bury Me @ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
You Bury Me is an urgent and powerful love letter to Cairo and the post-Tahir Square generation Read more »| 10 Mar 2023 -
ArtNaming the Money: repatriation and reparations
As Scotland’s museums begin the process of repatriating stolen goods, the absence of discussions around reparative justice is glaringly obvious Read more »| 09 Mar 2023 -
ComedyThe Skinny on... Kieran Hodgson
Ahead of his Glasgow International Comedy Festival work in progress, Big in Scotland, character comic Kieran Hodgson takes on our Q&A Read more »| 09 Mar 2023 -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival to return in 2023 with EIF
Edinburgh International Film Festival gets a reprieve – for one year at the very least – returning in 2023 for a special edition under the umbrella of the Edinburgh International Festival, with a new head of programming Read more »| 08 Mar 2023 -
MusicSelf Esteem @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 6 Mar
With 'I Tour This All the Time' Self Esteem has created something which is more than the sum of its parts, perfectly bringing to life the world that her music inhabits Read more »| 08 Mar 2023 -
TheatreScottish Opera introduce their new take on Il Trittico
We meet some of the team behind Scottish Opera's upcoming production of Puccini's Il Trittico, situating the three-part opera in a Scottish vernacular Read more »| 08 Mar 2023 -
FilmMeet Me in the Bathroom is a return to 2000s New York
The new documentary Meet Me in the Bathroom is an immersive journey through the cool, scuzzy New York music scene of the early 21st century. We talk to filmmakers Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern Read more »| 08 Mar 2023