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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ArtIn Pictures: Leith Late 2012
In Pictures: Leith Late 2012 Some images from Leith Late 2012: Photography by Damien McGlynn Read more »| 09 Jul 2012 -
MusicPurity Ring: Future Pop Fables
On their debut album Shrines, Canadian duo Purity Ring showcase their subversive take on pop, with sticky-sweet, dark-as-pitch lyrics and forward-looking, futuristic electronic beats Read more »| 09 Jul 2012 -
FilmDetachment
When substitute teacher Henry Barthes (Brody) walks into a classroom of troubled teens, we are primed to expect a story of education and redemption, but that... Read more »| 09 Jul 2012 -
Theatre
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show – Live! @ The Theatre Royal
We hit the Theatre Royal in dressing gowns, towels slung over arm, receiving knowing glances and smiles from fellow enthusiasts as we approach... Read more »| 06 Jul 2012 -
Music
The Rise of Netaudio
Netlabels and free music versus the traditional industry – the debate rages on. But if you're looking for good net-based releases, where do you start? Read more »| 05 Jul 2012 -
Music
Diana Darby – I V (Intravenous)
A series of personal misfortunes tarried the arrival of Diana Darby’s fourth album, her first since 2005’s The Magdalene Laundries. Yet despite a... Read more »| 05 Jul 2012
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Clubs
100% Silk Tour feat. LA Vampires & Ital
The sound of witch house comes to Glasgow, wit a showcase from LA Vampires and record label 100% Silk. Read more »| 05 Jul 2012 -
FilmThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Six well-dressed figures stride purposefully down a road in the French countryside. Why are they doing this? What's going on? You don't get many answers in L... Read more »| 05 Jul 2012 -
Music
Twin Shadow: Born in the 80s
As he gets prepared to unleash one of the albums of the year, George Lewis Jr., aka Twin Shadow, outlines his musical manifesto Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Music
White Manna – White Manna
When a band calling themselves White Manna christen a track Acid Head, they risk flirting with parody. The Californian quartet’s mantric psych-rock... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Music
The Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
In days gone by, describing a Flaming Lips album as “bewildering” could easily have passed as an endorsement, such was the dazzling nature of the... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Music
Purity Ring – Shrines
Where Grimes' work is all about ambiguity, fellow Canucks Purity Ring offer a vision of synth pop which is clear and polished as crystal. Corin Roddick's pro... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: July 2012 Horoscopes
ARIESThrough your Fisher Price binoculars you spot more UFOs. This time there are thousands of them, looking almost exactly like love heart balloons. You cat... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Art
Forest Pitch: Moving the goal posts
Artist Craig Coulthard has built a football pitch in the middle of a forest where men and women from around the world will go head to head in what is one of the most ambitious public artworks in Scotland Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
Clubs
Sneaky Pete's Turns Four
One of Edinburgh's best clubs, Sneaky Pete's, is four this month. We ask owner Nick Stewart about the secrets of its success Read more »| 03 Jul 2012