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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ArtScottish Art Highlights: June 2025
June brings your annual reminder to check out the art school degree shows, plus two exhibitions foregrounding acts of resistance open in Edinburgh Read more »| 29 May 2025 -
ArtDJCAD Degree Show 2025: The Review
Students graduating from visual art courses at Duncan of Jordanstone in Dundee grapple with AI, climate change and shifting ideas of selfhood Read more »| 28 May 2025 -
TheatreSpice of Life: The Neighbourhood Variety Show returns to Glasgow
Glasgow-based community project The Neighbourhood Variety Show celebrates a rich tapestry of local talent – we catch up with its creator Eoin McKenzie Read more »| 28 May 2025 -
MusicSoccer Mommy @ SWG3, Glasgow, 13 May
Soccer Mommy deliver some beautifully intricate and raw moments during tonight's SWG3 show, but the atmosphere feels somewhat flat Read more »| 28 May 2025 -
FilmScottish Film Events: June 2025
There's a bunch of film festivals this month, Glasgow Film Theatre celebrates two great filmmakers named Michael and Cameo brings David Lynch's legendary TV show Twin Peaks to the big screen Read more »| 28 May 2025 -
MusicScottish Live Music Highlights: June 2025
Family-friendly festivals, all-dayers, launch parties and whistle-stop tours – for Scotland's music lovers, June has it all Read more »| 27 May 2025
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MusicJacob Alon – In Limerence
Jacob Alon's debut record is one packed with honesty, sounding at once confident and vulnerable Read more »| 27 May 2025 -
MusicKathryn Joseph – WE WERE MADE PREY.
On her latest album, Kathryn Joseph conjures even more delicate ways to doubt, rage and come to terms with being Read more »| 27 May 2025 -
BooksKatie Goh on their new memoir Foreign Fruit
We chat with Edinburgh-based author Katie Goh about their debut memoir Foreign Fruit, and why the symbol of the orange is a potent metaphor for talking about identity Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
ComedyScottish Comedy Highlights: June 2025
June sees a number of (mainly) Scottish acts work up their latest Fringe hours, with a few fab tour shows thrown in for good measure Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
FilmBogancloch
Ben Rivers returns to the Aberdeenshire wilderness for another film centred on Jake Williams, the reclusive subject of his 2011 poetic documentary Two Years at Sea. The result is a similarly haunting film brimming with transcendent imagery Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: June 2025
June brings a slate of urgent, relevant work to Scotland's theatres, speaking to our past and present precarity Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
FilmThe Ballad of Wallis Island
Edinburgh Fringe royalty Tim Key and Tom Basden turn their promising 2007 short into an intimate, bittersweet gem of a movie Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
BooksThe Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey
Two halves – fiction and nonfiction – make up Catherine Lacey's experimental and groundbreaking memoir without beginning or end Read more »| 23 May 2025 -
BooksThe Possession by Annie Ernaux
In her latest translated novella, Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux examines the fixations and addictions of jealousy Read more »| 23 May 2025