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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Music
The Aliens - The Happy Song
only briefly teasing the ears Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Music
Alamos - Alamos
Just because you're angry, doesn't mean you can't be melodic. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Film
Lady In The Water
Does nothing to resuscitate the reputation of a one-time 'next big thing'. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Film
Miami Vice
Frustrating to watch even from a purely entertainment perspective. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Theatre
Sufi Festival@Tramway
The Sufi Festival was billed as a celebration of arts and harmony; attended by over two thousand people, it brought musicians, academics, poets, actors and c... Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Art
Lauren Kirkman - Surface
elevating the mundane to the realm of high art using the sparest means possible Read more »| 13 Sep 2006
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Art
Andrew Mackenzie - Delicate Ground
Mackenzie revels in the seductive, snaking patterns which his trees create Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Art
Beyond the Palace Walls
for many people this exhibition will serve not merely as a distraction, but as a rigorous cultural education Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Art
Face of Craft
An unusual and flawed exhibition Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Books
Sarah Waters [SKINNYFest 4]
Lesbian historical novels: tits without the tat. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
The Dangerous Words of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o [SKINNYFest 4]
A dictator fears people who think for themselves. So when you get the ordinary, working people no longer singing about the leader but singing about themselves - what they have done in history, what they can do; what they have done before, what they can do again àthat kind of awareness can make a dictator nervous. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
Pure Dead Brilliant, By The Way [SKINNYFEST 3] [PRINT VERSION]
I was this zonked-out hippie trying to write poetry and figure out what was going on in the universe. This guy's out there starting the revolution and making a million pounds and losing it and making another million pounds. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
Sam Leith and Hufo Rifkind [SKINNYFest 4]
They appear far more comfortable as journalists than novelists: their awkward readings do not suggest that their prose is suited to extended descriptions. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
John Mortimer SKINNYFEST4
It is a measure of the extraordinary affection that John Mortimer evokes that not only was this event sold out, the queue to get in stretched all around the ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Books
Doris Lessing [SKINNYFest 4]
It was the questions from audience members about her rich back catalogue that were really engrossing. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006