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
CSA- The Confederate States of America
no intention to do anything but wink at a black US audience Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre (Tartan Video)
Will attract and appall viewers in equal measure. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy!
An underworld of crime, desperation and hard luck. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Defiance @ Ohio
it's a bunch of real people Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Disturbed - Land Of Confusion
Please, quick, someone turn it off, or hand over some gaffer tape and a nail gun. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Theatre
Martha @ Tramway
Move's Martha is self-contained, confident and wry - the intimate detail lost in Tramway's post-industrial space. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Music
Vincent Vincent and the Villians - Johnny Two Bands
Quirky, wholesome fun Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Slam Dunk - The Big Word
In relief to this entertainment machine of processed meets, The Big Word is back to throw a spanner in the works Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Scottish Writers Conquer the Universe!
a product of the scientific, engineering tradition on the one hand and the mystic Celtic background on the other, generating SF with a lyrical strand and fantasy with particularly strong backgrounds Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
subjects such as the breakdown of family relations and the stifling atmosphere of eighteenth century London are described without qualms or precedent Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
The Monarch of the Glen' charts the rise of an ancient evil in the Scottish Highlands (obvious when you think about it) Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Cautionary Tales: Comic Verse for The Twenty First Century by James Landale
Landale has replaced Belloc's characters, who Run Away from Nurse and Slam Doors, with twenty first century hell raisers who instead Play Computer Games, Shoplift and Wind Up With An ASBO. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
500 Reasons Why I Hate the Office by Malcolm Burgess
If, for some reason, you need to read a hack book about how unbearable your work life is you are just adding, masochist-like, to your woes. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Brakes - The Beatific Visions
A solid collection of intelligent pop from Brighton's answer to the Travelling Wilburys... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Evanescence - 'The Open Door'
a little darker, hopefully putting to rest those persistent Christianity rumours Read more »| 12 Nov 2006