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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ClubsTell Me No L.I.E.S.: Ron Morelli on wax and NYC
With his Long Island Electrical Systems imprint forging a defiantly individual path through modern dance music, label boss Ron Morelli talks keeping it in the family, 'knackered house' and the lack of good wax Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
MusicWickerman 2013: Friday, 26 July
The impact of the July heatwave can be seen everywhere. Behind the bar in one pub near Partick Cross there’s a chalkboard proclaiming that staff will n... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
TheatreVenue of the Month: Unity Theatre, Liverpool
Liverpool's Unity Theatre may look humble, but with its long and noble history of using theatre to engender social change, it’s anything but. We look ahead to its autumn season Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: August 2013 Horoscopes
ARIES Finally you go on that holiday to Thailand hoping to find yourself. Instead you end up finding bits of yourself in the hotel shower plug hole after con... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Clubs
Redressing the Balance: Introducing Nightrave
As she prepares to welcome Parisian ghetto house player Big Dope P to Glasgow, DJ and producer Nightwave gives us the low down on her fledgling club event Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Music
Ras_G – Back on the Planet
Ras_G's first album for Brainfeeder since 2009's Brotha From Another Planet is a perfect, psychedelic hybrid of dusty LA beat-scene boom-bap and the cosmic j... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013
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Clubs
Clubbing Highlights Scotland – August 2013
Ahead of a particularly alluring month, we cast a bleary eye over the August schedule to pick out gems including hip hop turned house maestro Andrés, techno goodness from Jerome Hill and Jeff Mills, and jazz-flavoured electronics from LA’s Thundercat... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
FilmSerial Mom
Beverly Sutphin is the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and “f*cking nuts!” Queer cinema hero John Waters’ deliriously dark slice of seria... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Comedy
Choose Your Own Goddamn Fringe Adventure
A thrilling adventure in which YOU are a reviewer for The Skinny. Can you battle your way through the mayhem of the Fringe without getting fired? Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Art
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Belgian Pavilion @ Venice Biennale
In the darkened space of the Belgian Pavilion a massive wax form rests horizontally across the gallery floor –artist Berlinde De Bruyckere’s cast... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Art
Yuri Ancarani @ The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale
Yuri Ancarani's video in the Arsenale is not for the squeamish: the piece Da Vinci takes place in an operating room. The title comes from a human-controlled ... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – August 2013
This month, Cricfest proves that cinema has the power to make a sport as boring as cricket compelling, while Picnic Cinema offer up two movies about going nuts in the great outdoors Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – August 2013
As if Edinburgh didn't have enough festivals happening in August, Filmhouse delivers two more: Beyond Borders Scotland Film Festival and Just Festival. Other highlights include a sober Lindsay Lohan and David Bowie's codpiece Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Books
Snake Road by Sue Peebles
Snake Road is a family drama focusing on the lives of three women across three generations of the Copella family. In the top floor of the family home, grandm... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – August 2013
For over thirty years now, The B-52's (O2 ABC, 12 Aug) have poised themselves as the ultimate intergalactic, surf-pop, party band. It’s a notion that h... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013