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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ArtEbb and Flow: A Visual Chronicle of the Changes within Liverpool’s Chinatown @ Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, until 22 Jun
Ebb and Flow takes us through the history of photographers' enduring interest in Liverpool’s Chinatown, the oldest in Europe. The exhibition kicks off ... Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
FilmCheap Thrills
How much money would it take to get you to do something totally depraved, like hack off your own finger? Everyone has their price in E.L. Katz’s t... Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
BooksMightier than the Sword: Scottish PEN Literary Events
The worldwide association of writers host a series of free literature events which unite an outstanding selection of Commonwealth and Scottish writers along the route of the Queens Baton Relay. Our Books Editor speaks to some of the participants Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
MusicFat Out Fest @ Islington Mill, Salford, 23-25 May
What is it with Bank Holiday festivals and Islington Mill exactly? Piecing together another set of late, sleep-deprived nights, Fat Out’s latest festiv... Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
Music
Chain and the Gang @ Kazimier, Liverpool, 27 May
Oh, Ian Svenonius! He’s stood at the front of the stage, lecturing us on Jorge Pardo’s Penelope, a brightly-coloured and multitentacled sculpture... Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – June 2014
Nineties nostalgia is in the air as Pulp and Pulp Fiction crop up on your cinema screens this month. Plus there's a screening of Jaws to get you in the mood for that beach holiday you've been looking forward to Read more »| 02 Jun 2014
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Books
The Last Tiger by Tony Black
The premise at least is intriguing: a family relocates from Lithuania to Tasmania in 1910. The father is a shepherd, but he’s adept at hunting Tasmania... Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
Books
The Dead Beat by Doug Johnstone
Martha Fluke has just been assigned to the 'dead beat' – the obituaries desk of an Edinburgh newspaper in decline, and her dead father's former pl... Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
FilmNorthwest Film Event Highlights – June 2014
John Carpenter is all over the Northwest this month, with screenings at The Dancehouse and FACT. There's also a world premiere in a city centre office block and a classic comedy screening in the open air Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
Books
Character Driven: Laura Marney on For Faughie's Sake
Laura Marney returns this month with For Faughie's Sake, a wryly-observed political comedy about the referendum, sustainability, and American imperialism. Here, she tells us why the Yes campaign need to get “wee bingo ladies” on side Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – June 2014
From the sharp pomp of Future Islands to the warped wonk of Luke Abbott – it’s all in a month’s work for you intrepid gig-goers Read more »| 30 May 2014 -
Film
Venus in Fur
Roman Polanski returns to the role of provocateur with a deliciously subversive filming of David Ives’ play. Fiddling with gender roles, metatextuality... Read more »| 30 May 2014 -
Music
Thin Privilege – Thin Privilege
Already making a notable impression in Glasgow over the past few months for their tense, cathartic live shows, Thin Privilege's debut further proves they're ... Read more »| 30 May 2014 -
Film
Ae Fond Farewell...? Paul Laverty on Jimmy's Hall
With legendary director Ken Loach reportedly soon to retire from the movie racket, we speak to his long time collaborator Paul Laverty (they've worked together on 11 features) about their new film Jimmy's Hall and both their filmmaking futures Read more »| 30 May 2014 -
Film
Jimmy's Hall
It’s not difficult to see what attracted perennial rabble-rousers Ken Loach and Paul Laverty to the tale of rabble-rousing, Church-baiting ac... Read more »| 30 May 2014