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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ArtDesign for Our Times explores sustainable design
Design for Our Times at V&A Dundee is a design exhibition featuring a variety of installations and objects from seven designers, exploring sustainable solutions to overconsumption and material waste Read more »| 12 Jan 2022 -
BooksI Love You But I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness blurs the lines of fiction, non-fiction, what we leave behind and what travels with us Read more »| 12 Jan 2022 -
ComedyICYMI: Sam Lake on Ellen (The Sitcom)
Previous winner of the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year Award, and a now-familiar face on the Scottish comedy scene, Sam Lake gives us his take on ground-breaking Ellen DeGeneres sitcom, Ellen Read more »| 11 Jan 2022 -
MusicFickle Friends – Are We Gonna Be Alright?
The Brighton band’s second LP is a retro rewind to a party you won’t want to forget Read more »| 11 Jan 2022 -
MusicVLURE – Euphoria
VLURE embrace a more electronic sound on their debut EP Euphoria, and it presents an interesting new direction for the Glasgow-based five-piece Read more »| 11 Jan 2022 -
BooksIn the Seeing Hands of Others by Nat Ogle
Nat Ogle's startlingly original debut is an extremely compelling, genre-bending read Read more »| 11 Jan 2022
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BooksTo Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
To Paradise is a symphony of a novel whose parts come together to form an fractured portrait of America's past, present and future Read more »| 10 Jan 2022 -
MusicBlood Red Shoes – Ghosts On Tape
Ever the musical misfits, Blood Red Shoes’ righteous spirit remains, even if their sound is a shape-shifting entity Read more »| 10 Jan 2022 -
MusicBonobo – Fragments
Bonobo cranks up the club beats in his latest foray into wistful, cathartic electronica Read more »| 10 Jan 2022 -
MusicScottish New Music Round-up: January 2022
January can often be a barren wasteland in terms of releases, but there’s new music this month from Niteworks, Goodnight Louisa, Kathryn Joseph and more Read more »| 07 Jan 2022 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: January 2022
Some delayed delights from touring productions of Book of Mormon and Waitress, and the return of Manipulate Festival, feature in January's theatre picks Read more »| 06 Jan 2022 -
BooksScottish Poetry News: January 2022
Prizes, writing courses, live events and new releases all feature in 2022's first poetry and spoken word round-up Read more »| 05 Jan 2022 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: January 2022
Brighten up those January blues with big headline shows from Caribou and Ross From Friends, and Central EH1 becomes the latest addition to Edinburgh's club scene... Read more »| 05 Jan 2022 -
ArtRae-Yen Song on family, memory, and creating a whole world at DCA
Glasgow-based artist Rae-Yen Song's first solo exhibition is now on at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Here, the artist shares some insights into making this new body of work, which is rich with symbolism and well-crafted surprising details Read more »| 05 Jan 2022 -
FilmScottish Film Events: January 2022
Filmhouse kicks off the new year with a huge François Truffaut season while we pray to the movie gods that cinemas stay open so we can catch the likes of Licorice Pizza and Parallel Mothers on the big screen Read more »| 05 Jan 2022