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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BooksNorthwest Book Highlights – September 2015
Controversial and political figures hit Manchester and Liverpool as Richard Dawkins and Margaret Atwood come to town, while Gladfest invites audiences to share their own opinions Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
FilmMe and Earl and the Dying Girl – we meet the cast
A YA weepy centred on a terminally ill teen might have some reaching for the sick bucket, but Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, dubbed "the Citizen Kane of teen cancer tearjerkers" by one US critic, is a different breed. We meet its talented young cast Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
FilmClosed Curtain
Jafar Panahi’s semi-documentary This Is Not a Film visualised and articulated his plight after a draconian sentence from the Iranian government (regard... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
While escaping the social hell that is high school with his best friend and 'co-worker' Earl (RJ Cyler), our lead protagonist Greg (Thomas Mann) unexpec... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Northwest Film Event Highlights – September 2015
There's a flurry of repertory screenings this month thanks to Scalarama's month-long cinephilic celebrations, as well as the return of Sheffield's Sensoria and the Northwest premiere horror festival, Grimmfest Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Paisley Digital Art Project fuses creativity and science
The town of Paisley has announced its inaugural Digital Art Commission, a £25,000 grant to create a piece of artwork for the town which explores the relationship between art and technology, to boredomresearch. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015
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Interview: Paul Robertson - Lust for Change
Self-taught curator Paul Robertson speaks candidly about public funding and loud printing presses. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
ArtScottish Art News for September 2015: What's Oak
Sogol Mabadi, Theo Shields and Nicolas Deshayes exhibit in galleries across Scotland this month. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Books
Wind/Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
With Wind/Pinball, Japanese author Haruki Murakami finally grants his first two novels a UK release. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
Music
Low – Ones and Sixes
Feel that? It’s floating in between the aeons that pass between chords. It’s the haunting harmonies that shiver from the lips of Alan Sparhawk an... Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
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Oscar Coop-Phane: Feeling so Bohemian
Oscar Coop-Phane talks about new novel Tomorrow, Berlin and the dark experiences which birthed it. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
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Stieg Larsson, the Publisher and the Hornet's Nest
The new Stieg Larsson Millennium novel – The Girl in the Spider's Web – is already causing a storm, just not in the way its publisher wanted. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
Music
The Cesarians – Pure White Speed
Modern life desperately needs agit-pop. Something to shoot holes in perceived wisdom. Get it wrong, however, and you can end up with a mess like Pure White S... Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
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Mike Krol – Turkey
Judge Mike Krol as much for what he isn’t as for what he is. After eight blasts of searing fuzz-pop, this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it album switches... Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
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Seamus Fogarty – Ducks and Drakes EP
There’s nothing hurried or harried about Seamus Fogarty’s music, as Ducks and Drakes favourably attests. The EP’s title track opens with it... Read more »| 31 Aug 2015