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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ClubsNorthwest Clubbing Highlights – August 2013
Sweating is great! We love sweating. Here, find out about some places to sweat in this month, or even better, some people to sweat alongside, from Adam Shelton to Ron Morelli, to Theo Parrish at Beacons. Then get a lovely sweaty bear hug off The 2 Bears Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Film
Paradise: Hope
The third film in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy is the most heartfelt and uplifting of the three, which comes as both a surprise and a blessed relief... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
FilmUnsimulated: Travis Mathews on I Want Your Love
Once in a while a film comes along to remind us how conservative the industry really is when it comes to sex on screen. Travis Mathews' I Want Your Love is one such work. The San Francisco-based filmmaker talks to us about explicit cinema Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Clubs
Hero Worship: Matthew Herbert
Mancunian minimalist Howes tells The Skinny why sonic wiz Matthew Herbert's relentless innovation inspires him to challenge his own laziness Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – August 2013
If history teaches us anything, it’s that not many people have had a month named after them; props to Emperor Augustus for achieving this feat some two thousand years ago. Here's our pick of the hottest gigs this month – a selection to make Gus proud Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Art
Witches and Wicked Bodies @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
The summer show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art looks set to be an intriguing and thought-provoking examination of a well-known and often cont... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013
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Music
The Lucid Dream – Songs of Lies and Deceit
The debut from this Carlisle psych-rock quartet makes no attempt to hide its influences, but in its drawing of links across some impressively disparate terri... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Music
Crocodiles – Crimes of Passion
Since the lo-fi guitar fuzz of early albums Summer of Hate and Sleep Forever, San Diego's Crocodiles have cleaned up their sound immensely. Their shoegaze le... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Theatre
An Actor's Lament @ Assembly Hall
An Actor's Lament by Steven Berkoff comes to the Fringe to reveal the mystical world behind the curtain, the action behind the action. Drawing on over... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Theatre
Motherland @ Summerhall
At the Fringe for the first time since 1993, Vincent Dance Theatre plan to take the Summerhall dissection room by storm this August. Directed and choreograph... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Theatre
Theatre Uncut @ Paterson's Land
With the Scottish independence referendum looming, political theatre seems to be spreading. Theatre Uncut are just one of many companies at the Fringe trying... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Clubs
Rave It Up and Start Again: Simon Reynolds Revises Energy Flash
A new edition of Simon Reynolds' 1998 book Energy Flash, expanded with fresh material, taps into the recent co-option of rave by America's brash, commercial EDM movement – but he refuses to be too down on the kids Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
Art
Magic Mirror @ GFT
Sarah Pucill’s film Magic Mirror hovers somewhere between a love letter to its subject, French Surrealist Claude Cahun, and a critical self-examination... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
Film
From Up on Poppy Hill
It’s 1963, and high school student Umi wakes each morning to raise signal flags to the drifting tugboats of postcard-pretty Yokohama. When local boy Sh... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013 -
MusicThe Whigs – Enjoy the Company
Garage rock revival vets The Whigs turn down the fuzz that was so prominent on 2010's In The Dark with the opening statement to their fourth album:... Read more »| 29 Jul 2013