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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FilmThe Patience Stone
After her astonishing work in Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly, Golshifteh Farahani’s performance in The Patience Stone confirms her status as on... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
MusicExclusive: Hear Rocket From The Crypt's new cover of Baker Street
Maverick San Diego rockers Rocket From The Crypt – that's John 'Speedo' Reis, Pete 'Petey X' Reichert, Andy 'ND' Stamets, Paul 'Apollo 9' O'B... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
ArtDennis Reinmüller @ Summerhall, until 22 Nov
Seinfeld, the TV sitcom based loosely on the ‘real’ lives of its writers is often cited as ‘a show about nothing.’ Dennis J. Reinm&uu... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
TheatreChristmas Season, Panto Season
December heralds the beginning of the Christmas season. Aside from longer shop hours, Christmas carols and decorations, this month also sees the resurrection of the Christmas pantomime, more affectionately known as 'panto' Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Film
Staff Do, or Staff Don't? Why Not Stay at Home with a Comedy DVD...
The Christmas period is jam-packed with comedy nights, which are in turn jam-packed with office parties; which is precisely why you should avoid them like the plague, argues our Comedy ed Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
ClubsRetro Fetishism: Gerd Janson's Tech-House Ode to Thomas Pynchon
Ahead of his date at The Warehouse Project this month, Running Back boss Gerd Janson talks Tuff City Kids, American culture, and cutting off his own hands Read more »| 03 Dec 2013
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Music
American Werewolf Academy – Out Of Place All The Time
Goddam these songs. Just when you think you’ve seen too many straight-up powerpop bands or heard enough Guided By Voices classics getting bent outta sh... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
Dean Blunt @ Blade Factory, Liverpool, 30 November
For all the talk of ex-Hype Williams man Dean Blunt's fickle stage manner – there's a palpable air of trepidation in tonight's cold, minimally lit Blad... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
After the Burial – Wolves Within
After the Burial's fourth LP may be crammed with sinister riffs and guttural growls, but like past efforts, the production is slick: every guitar slam and to... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
The Gentle Good – Y Bardd Anfarwol
Following a six-week artistic residency at the Theatre of Performing Arts in Chengdu in 2011, Welsh folk singer and guitarist Gareth Bonello returned to the ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Theatre
Breathing Corpses @ Victoria Baths, Manchester
Young Manchester-based company Fresh Loaf are the latest to take on Lauren Wade’s award-winning drama Breathing Corpses, set in the (very atmospheric) ... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Music
How To Dress Well offer mix featuring Deafheaven, Grimes and Mariah Carey
Ethereal R&B producer Tom Krell, alias How To Dress Well, has produced a new 30-minute mix for US clothing brand Safe House USA. Featuring exclusive edit... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Books
Pilgrim's Flower by Rachael Boast
Rachael Boast’s first collection, Sidereal, won the Forward Prize for best debut and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize, so her second has a lot... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Books
Letters of Note by Shaun Usher
Based on the website of the same name, Letters of Note is a compilation of 125 letters that truly runs the epistolary gamut. There are, of course, a fair few... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Books
The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble
Anna is a girl with a sunny temperament, trusts strangers without hesitation, and wins medals for her doggy paddling: ‘Anna was born happy, a pure gold... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013