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
Sabrina Carpenter – Man's Best Friend
Sabrina Carpenter returns with an adventurous new album that leans into her now-trademark sense of humour and innuendo, with mixed results Read more »| 01 Sep 2025 -
Music
The Beat Goes On: 14 Festivals in Scotland this Autumn
Just when you thought festival season was over, Scotland’s music scene has other plans. We chat to some of the folks behind festivals taking place across the country this autumn Read more »| 01 Sep 2025 -
Theatre
Puttin' on the Citz: Citizens Theatre reopens
After seven long years Glasgow's Citizens Theatre has finally reopened its doors. We take a look at what's been happening, and what's coming up Read more »| 01 Sep 2025 -
Art
Robert Powell: Hall of Hours @ Edinburgh Printmakers
Robert Powell's solo exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers is a hypnotic and whimsical exploration of the passing of time Read more »| 01 Sep 2025 -
Books
The Devil Book by Asta Olivia Nordenhof
The eeriness of the pandemic is evoked in Asta Olivia Nordenhof's formally innovative narrative of an unsettling relationship Read more »| 01 Sep 2025 -
Music
Lucrecia Dalt – A Danger to Ourselves
Colombian experimental musician Lucrecia Dalt returns with an avant-pop opus that blurs the line between inner turmoil and arthouse horror Read more »| 01 Sep 2025
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Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights: September 2025
Feeling fresh? School’s back and so are club programmes across the country to power you through the atrocities of academia. Top picks this month include Slikback, Scandal.gla, Josi Devil, and Lena Willikens Read more »| 01 Sep 2025 -
Film
Scottish Film Events: September 2025
This month, All Night Horror Madness returns to the Cameo, 35mm prints of Paul Thomas Anderson films do the rounds, and GFT sends off their long-serving CEO Read more »| 01 Sep 2025 -
Film
Venice Film Festival 2025: Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a sumptuous adaptation, but it embellishes the novel to its own detriment Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
Film
Venice Film Festival 2025: No Other Choice
Director Park Chan-wook returns to Venice with a Machiavellian teardown of capitalism and masculinity that saves its gory best for last Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
Film
Venice Film Festival 2025: After the Hunt
Julia Roberts gives one of her best performances in Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt, but the wordy movie around her feels more like an exhaustive debate rather than a compelling drama Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
Film
Venice Film Festival 2025: Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons for a bold conspiracy theory thriller Read more »| 30 Aug 2025 -
Music
Chappell Roan @ Royal Highland Showgrounds, Edinburgh, 26 Aug
Under Chappell Roan’s spell, Edinburgh Summer Sessions erupts into a kaleidoscopic queer celebration Read more »| 28 Aug 2025 -
Music
Spotlight On... Tarn
Following the release of his debut album as Tarn, we catch up with Glasgow-based producer and pianist Dan Brown Read more »| 28 Aug 2025 -
Music
The Linda Lindas @ King Tut's, Glasgow, 26 Aug
LA teen punks The Linda Lindas ride the crazy train from cute cat odes to brutal basslines in their debut Scottish show Read more »| 28 Aug 2025