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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BooksAnd Yet... by Christopher Hitchens
And Yet... is Christopher Hitchens’ supposedly final collection of essays, most of which were written before the publication of his previous collection... Read more »| 14 Jan 2016 -
Clubs
The Place Outside: Alex Smoke on Love Over Will
No stranger to these pages over the years, Glasgow-based producer Alex Smoke discusses the enduring influence of classical music and his evolving relationship with dancefloor sounds on latest record Love Over Will. Read more »| 14 Jan 2016 -
Art
Christopher MacInnes @ Generator Projects
Christopher MacInnes' Small Gate Infinite Field is well-executed take on the material conditions for digital existence. Read more »| 14 Jan 2016 -
Film
Creed
The Rocky franchise bounces off the ropes with a thrilling new entry from Ryan Coogler Read more »| 14 Jan 2016 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: January 2016 Horoscopes
ARIESFor weeks you’ve complained to your partner of feelings of love, involuntary singing, clapping and speaking in tongues. In your hysteria you even ... Read more »| 14 Jan 2016 -
MusicLet's Start Over: Howes interviewed
His EP of summer 2013 got Manchester chattering, but young talent Howes has spent the last two years heading in a new direction. He tells The Skinny about his debut full-length LP, making connections through music and the wily ways of the modular synth Read more »| 13 Jan 2016
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ArtDelaying Tactics @ House for an Art Lover
Birthe Jorgensen's group show makes good use of the space and includes interesting work, but at times misses the mark. Read more »| 13 Jan 2016 -
Music
Diet Cig / Bruising @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 10 Jan
If guitar-based pop music is so simple, then how come so many people make such a hash of it? The crucial ingredient that separates the wheat from the&nb... Read more »| 13 Jan 2016 -
Clubs
Party for the People on clubbing and philanthropy
Last year saw social fundraisers Party for the People – an initiative which directs money from ticket sales to a range of charities and causes – fly past their £30k milestone for donations. They told us their story so far Read more »| 13 Jan 2016 -
Theatre
Curtains Up: 2016 in Scottish Theatre
We pick out some of the expected highlights in Scotland's theatres in the first half of the new year Read more »| 13 Jan 2016 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Amy Stevenson
Amy Stevenson is an artist based in Manchester whose practice often attaches itself to ideas of commodity fetishism. Sculptures multiply, often becoming imme... Read more »| 13 Jan 2016 -
Art
Stephanie Mann: The Skinny Showcase
Stephanie Mann graduated from Edinburgh College of Art MFA in 2013 and works from her studio at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Upcoming show: The transparent... Read more »| 13 Jan 2016 -
Music
Slow & Steady: Tortoise unveil The Catastrophist
Chicago's long-standing instrumental heroes Tortoise return with The Catastrophist, their first record in seven years – John McEntire tells us about getting lost in a world of their own making. Read more »| 13 Jan 2016 -
FilmLenny Abrahamson interview: on Room and the Oscars
Irish writer-director Lenny Abrahamson is known for his small-scale, dryly funny films, but he's come under a new level of scrutiny with his latest movie Roo... Read more »| 13 Jan 2016 -
Music
Return of a Firebrand: Saul Williams on MartyrLoserKing
Rapper, poet, actor and agitator Saul Williams talks about the fire and music that inspired his first record in four years Read more »| 13 Jan 2016