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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MusicScottish Gig Highlights – July 2015
It's festival fever this month as T In The Park, Kelburn Garden Party and Wickerman return, while Wild Beasts play Edinburgh and Cannibal Ox visit Glasgow. Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Comedy
The bunny-boiler's book: Jessie Cave interview
Jessie Cave talks to The Skinny about her new book Love Sick and upcoming Fringe show I Loved Her Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Art
The heart is deceitful above all things @ HOME, Manchester
I moved from London to Liverpool aged ten and started a new primary school. In the playground, on the first day, a group of girls waved a copy of Smash Hits ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – July 2015
A Heavenly Records showcase, the strung-out psychedelic shimmer of The Holydrug Couple plus the beats of Femi Kuti and Nubiyan Twist – it’s a blissed-out July in the Northwest Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Books
The Cartel by Don Winslow
Don Winslow’s The Power of the Dog was an epic fictional dissection of the US-Mexican drug wars, rightly regarded as a modern classic of crime fiction.... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Books
The Well of Trapped Words by Sema Kaygusuz
In 2013, Sema Kaygusuz addressed the Edinburgh International Book Festival and spoke of the transitional qualities of literature, especially across linguisti... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015
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MusicUnder the Influence: Failure on The Cure, Big Star, Blonde Redhead and more
Returning from a 17-year break with a cosmic odyssey titled The Heart Is a Monster this month, the reactivated LA space rock trio reveal the albums that make up their DNA. Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Film
Chasing Amy: Asif Kapadia on his Amy Winehouse documentary
Asif Kapadia's latest documentary charts the rise and premature demise of controversial soul singer Amy Winehouse. We talk to the sharp-eyed director about the film’s genesis and challenges ahead of its UK premier Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Film
A Letter to Three Wives
Like the following year's All About Eve, this 1949 mega-hit was adapted from fiction published in the pages of Cosmopolitan. It too is a whip-smart melodrama... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Film
Story of My Death
Albert Serra’s mischievous allegory for the death knell of the Enlightenment and the dawning of Romanticism is a truly singular work. Serra expresses t... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Film
The Man with the Golden Arm
The Nelson Algren novel on which this is based asks readers to relate to a philandering junkie card dealer whose ultimate ambition is to be a jazz drummer. T... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Music
Northwest Music News: 20 Tracks of the Year So Far
With half the year already gone, it's time to recap on the best of what music we've covered in the Northwest as well as a few tracks that slipped through the cracks. Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
ComedyNorris & Parker: Comedy Spotlight
Jack Bauer, deceased porn stars and goose-strangling failed actors – welcome to the weird world of Katie Norris and Sinead Parker Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Art
GSA Product Design Degree Show: Designs For Life
The Product Design Degree Show at the Glasgow School of Art presents a diverse selection of work from graduating Bachelors and Masters students, that casts thought on to the role of design within society Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Music
Qluster – Tasten
Labels such as 'neo-classical' don’t always assist. It doesn’t do justice to the stark, abstract, and at times ambient beauty a work such as Tast... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015