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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MusicOpen Your Mind: Nasty P interview
Edinburgh producer Nasty P is passionate about Scottish hip-hop and raising awareness for his local scene, but as he tells The Skinny, he also has his own creative ambitions Read more »| 11 Sep 2017 -
BooksScottish Poetry News: September 2017
Our poetry columnist highlights the launch of Stairs and Whispers at the Scottish Poetry Library – an anthology from deaf and disabled poets. We also look at the best published poetry to have reached us this month Read more »| 08 Sep 2017 -
FilmMother!
Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem star in Darren Aronofsky's Mother!, a mind-bending shocker whose mysteries need to be unpacked and then unpacked again Read more »| 08 Sep 2017 -
Music
Cool Times: MC Almond Milk Interview
We speak to James Scott, aka MC Almond Milk, about his debut record under his nutritionally rich and nutty moniker Read more »| 08 Sep 2017 -
Film
It
The long-gestating big screen adaptation of Stephen King's iconic novel has excellent teen performances and is highly entertaining, even if it's not especially scary Read more »| 08 Sep 2017 -
Art
Jac Leirner @ Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
In her newest exhibition at The Fruitmarket, Jac Leirner shows the beauty of obsession Read more »| 08 Sep 2017
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Art
Scotland's Design Language: The Skinny Showcase
What characterises contemporary design in Scotland? What is our ‘design language’ – do we indeed have one? Read more »| 07 Sep 2017 -
Clubs
Platform 18: The Depot Summer Rave @ The Depot, Glasgow, 29 Jul
Jeff Mills, Mathew Jonson and Gary Beck head an impressive line-up for Platform 18's summer party in Glasgow Read more »| 07 Sep 2017 -
BooksA Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma's new collection captures the complexities and contradictions of emotional life Read more »| 07 Sep 2017 -
Film
In praise of crime film poet Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville was the lone wolf of French cinema and the connective tissue between American film noir and modern day master directors like Michael Mann and Quentin Tarantino. Dive into his ice cool cinema with GFT's latest CineMasters season Read more »| 07 Sep 2017 -
Music
Lomelda – Thx
Hannah Read's second album under her Lomelda moniker, Thx is the sound of a magnetic new artist shifting up a gear. Read more »| 07 Sep 2017 -
Art
Infinite Resistance: Sahej Rahal Interview
Ahead of his exhibition in CCA this month, Sahej Rahal discusses the protest politics and texts of resistance that inspired the work that he will show Read more »| 07 Sep 2017 -
Music
Human Pyramids – Louise (Track Premiere)
Listen to brand-new track Louise from composer Paul Russell's Human Pyramids project Read more »| 07 Sep 2017 -
Books
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart explores the difficulty of being caught on the hyphen of Chinese-American in biting, brutal, darkly hilarious style. Read more »| 07 Sep 2017 -
Art
Plant Scenery of the World @ Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Taking its name from a suite of paintings by 19th Century artist-botanist RK Grenville, Plant Scenery of the World in the long-languishing Inverleith House u... Read more »| 06 Sep 2017