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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TheatreThe Mandrake
The Mandrake is an English adaptation of Machiavelli's great satirical play La Mandragola. Nothing unusual about that for the Fringe Festival, you'd think: e... Read more »| 02 Aug 2010 -
Music
Matthew Dear – Black City
Matthew Dear isn’t the kind of guy who revels in the daytime. Steeped in nocturnal atmospherics, the Texan-born producer cum avant-garde electro maveri... Read more »| 02 Aug 2010 -
Music
Millimetre – 13 Homes
While summing up Millimetre’s sound isn't easy, The Blue Nile with laptops (or The XX remixed by Hot Chip, to put contemporary references to work) evok... Read more »| 02 Aug 2010 -
FilmThe Secret in Their Eyes
The Secret in Their Eyes was the surprise winner of the Best Foreign Language Film at the last Academy Awards, but underneath the glossy surface, Juan Jos&ea... Read more »| 02 Aug 2010 -
Theatre
A Big Big Love
Indefinite Articles are sculptor Sally Brown and puppeteer Steve Tiplady. At this year's Fringe they are bringing the Chalk Giants to life Read more »| 01 Aug 2010 -
TheatreGet Slack
The Skinny chats to Christopher Payne about two of his favourite subjects: slacking, and Western Theatre Read more »| 01 Aug 2010
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Music
A Rough Guide to Dizzee Rascal
An album by album guide to the UK's favourite homegrown MC Read more »| 01 Aug 2010 -
Theatre
Carmen @ the Citz
Scottish Opera break new ground at the Citizens and beyond. The Skinny talks to mezzo-soprano Rebecca Afonwy-Jones Read more »| 01 Aug 2010 -
Theatre
Goodbye Dahling
Can the RSAMD overcome preconceptions about student drama? Read more »| 01 Aug 2010 -
Theatre
Hot Mess
For many people, The Fringe is a non-stop party, eventually colliding into an alcoholic break-down in the final week and leading to a long year of trying to recoup severe financial and emotional losses Read more »| 01 Aug 2010 -
MusicKlaxons: Exploding the Myths
Jamie Reynolds shows off about how great everything is for Klaxons, but only because they take lifestyle advice from their producer Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
Music
El-P – We are all going to burn in hell megamixxx3
El-P’s first major release since the untimely collapse of Definitive Jux is deceptively labelled as the third in a series of mixtapes, although El-P is... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – August, 2010
Armed with a pair of headphones and a fistful of plastic discs, Chris Buckle wanders off on the hunt for an August soundtrack Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
MusicThe Metal Column – August 2010
In a digital world of illegal file sharing and downloading, it’s good to know that we can still support artists where it really matters: on the stage a... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
Art
A Word on the Art Festival
Let’s face it, festival time is a total nightmare for everyone. Stop pretending you’ll comprehensively see everything like you never managed to d... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010