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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ComedyFringe Dog's Guide to Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
Froget willpower, try dog power Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Tv RadioFlight of the Conchords confirm TV return in 2018
But it's not in the form of their much-loved cult HBO comedy. Instead, it'll show starring Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie might be back in 2018 in the form of an hour-long special Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Film
Listen to Jonny Greenwood’s stunning Phantom Thread score
The Radiohead multi-instrumentalist's fourth collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson is now available online, and it's stunning Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Music
The Go! Team on optimism, playing live, and Semicircle
Ahead of the release of their fifth studio album, Semicircle, producer and The Go! Team leader Ian Parton explains how the band's sense of utopia is needed more now than ever before Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
TheatreJemima Levick and Fleur Darkin on The Lover
Ahead of its world premiere later this month, The Skinny talks to the directors of The Lover, the first stage adaptation of Marguerite Duras' classic autobiographical novel about the book, the play and the coincidences that led to its premiere Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Art
Ben Soedira: The Skinny Showcase
A look at the work of Glasgow-based photographer Ben Soedira, and his Foreign Sands project focused on his home city of Dubai Read more »| 11 Jan 2018
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Art
Kate V Robertson @ Dundee Contemporary Arts
Kate V Robertson's installation in Dundee Contemporary Arts combines monumental scale with material precarity to provide insight into concepts of productive failure Read more »| 11 Jan 2018 -
Film
Michelle Williams 'paid a fraction of Wahlberg's salary' for Spacey reshoots
Celebrated actor Michelle Williams made 1,500 times less than her co-star Mark Wahlberg for their roles in the re-shoots for All the Money in the World Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
Music
Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus on I can feel you creep into my private life
Merrill Garbus tells us about exploring her relationship with whiteness on Tune-Yards' ominously-titled fourth album, I can feel you creep into my private life, and officially re-branding as a duo Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
FilmGreta Gerwig speaks out against Woody Allen: ‘I will not work for him again’
The Lady Bird writer-director is the latest Hollywood star to express regret at having previously worked with alleged abuser Woody Allen Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
ClubsSofay on Subcity and life as a DJ
From her popular Subcity radio show to an opening slot at last year's Optimo 20 festival, Sophie Reilly – aka Sofay – is a talented DJ on the rise Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
Art
Scottish Jewellery Design: 6 more great designers
In part two of our spotlight on jewellery design in Scotland we explore the work of six exceptional designers. Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
Film
The Man with the Iron Heart
This World War II drama starring Rosamund Pike and Jack O’Connell is prettily framed and powerfully acted, but doesn't leave an impression as the credits roll Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
Film
Meet Jennifer Reeder: the world needs her feminist short films right now
As Reeder’s knockout short Blood Beneath the Skin is released online, we celebrate this most unique and inventive of filmmakers Read more »| 10 Jan 2018 -
Books
The Prime of Muriel Spark
As we begin the year of Muriel Spark's centenary celebrations, writers share how she influenced them, making a case for her placement as Scotland's great writer Read more »| 10 Jan 2018