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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BooksOlga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
Xochitl Gonzalez’s exploration of identity among the Puerto Rican diaspora is irresistibly warm yet entirely uncompromising Read more »| 05 Jan 2022 -
ArtScottish Art Events and Exhibitions: January 2022
Radical politics, sensitive explorations of site and place, and blockbuster installations feature in our round-up of art in Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Read more »| 05 Jan 2022 -
MusicGreat Scots: 2021 in Scottish Music
As we wrap up at the magazine for another year, it's time for our annual Great Scots playlist of music we've loved in Scotland this year. Enjoy. Read more »| 17 Dec 2021 -
ClubsSketching a Scene: A visual history of Scottish clubbing
From early Slam events to pre-pandemic parties, we delve into the visual history of Scottish club culture with help from some notable club flyer and poster designers Read more »| 17 Dec 2021 -
MusicSwim School @ The Mash House, Edinburgh, 11 Dec
What better way to sign off your gig-going year than with a performance from a hotly tipped band of hometown heroes who are set for even bigger things in 2022? Read more »| 16 Dec 2021 -
FilmBoiling Point
Philip Barantini's one-shot thriller is a precise, anxious and feverish tale of one hectic night in a London restaurant Read more »| 16 Dec 2021
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FilmWhy Palme d'Or-winning horror Titane is all about love
Julia Ducournau, the director of cult horror Raw, explores the boundaries of sexuality and genre with her uninhibited new film Titane. We speak to Ducournau and Titane's game-for-anything star, Agathe Rousselle, about this brutal film's tender core Read more »| 16 Dec 2021 -
TheatreChristmas Dinner @ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Robert Alan Evans' wacky but heartfelt show at the Lyceum is exactly the Christmas tonic we need Read more »| 15 Dec 2021 -
BooksLooking back on 2021 through an apocalyptic lens
As we come to the end of another year that truly feels like the end of times are nigh, Katie Goh – author of The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters – looks back on 2021 through a literary apocalyptic lens Read more »| 14 Dec 2021 -
ComedyICYMI: Fringe Dog on Frasier
Fringe Dog goes all puppy-dog eyed at Eddie, the star of 90s sitcom Frasier Read more »| 14 Dec 2021 -
ArtVan Gogh Alive Comes to Edinburgh
Critically acclaimed immersive exhibition Van Gogh Alive heads to Edinburgh after stints in over 75 cities across the world, offering a never-before-seen glimpse into the artist's dynamic, complex world Read more »| 14 Dec 2021 -
MusicLOTOS – Renaissance, track-by-track
Following the release of Renaissance back in September, Scottish hip-hop collective LOTOS (Last of the Old School) talk us through the record track-by-track Read more »| 09 Dec 2021 -
FilmThe Skinny's Films of 2021: Our Writers' Top 10s
The top tens, honourable mentions and least-liked films of 2021 from The Skinny's ever-excellent roster of film writers Read more »| 09 Dec 2021 -
Film16 Overlooked and Underrated Films from 2021
If you blinked this year you likely missed these much-misunderstood films when they played to empty auditoriums at your local theatres – if they made it to cinemas at all! Use the holidays to seek out these delightful cinematic oddballs and rejects Read more »| 09 Dec 2021 -
TheatreThe Skinny on... Grant Stott
What better way to celebrate the return of panto season than with a Q&A with Scottish pantomime stalwart Grant Stott? Read more »| 09 Dec 2021