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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MusicThe Shins – Port of Morrow
Having shed all but one of their original line-up, The Shins' long-awaited follow up to 2007’s Wincing the Night Away is rather more of a musical man... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Comedy
Preparing for the Apocalypse: Anticipating the End
With less than 10 months left until the Apocalypse, I decided to get all my survival research done as early as possible. Obviously, when the world ends, th... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
TheatreAn Appointment with The Wicker Man @ Theatre Royal Glasgow
From cult horror to musical comedy Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
TheatrePassing Through @ Tron
Romance in the Tron bar Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Theatre
PUSH
Hitting the wall with style Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Art
Anna Barriball @ Fruitmarket
The work of Anna Barriball smudges the lines of traditional art disciplines; simultaneously both drawing and sculpture, hers is a practice that occupies an e... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012
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Theatre
Spirit Of Adventure @ Oran Mor
A captain gets the bird's eye Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
FilmThe Sniper
"Experts can coexist." The final, summarising line of dialogue in the The Sniper suggests the dead hand of China's Communist Party at work in this story of r... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Film
Special Forces
To watch Special Forces is to go to war with your own incredulity. Individual tolerances for cliché are rigorously tested as an elite team of French s... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Film
Reflections in a Golden Eye: An Interview with Christopher Doyle
Legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle tells us about his creative partnership with Wong Kar Wai, being inspired by the spaces in Hong Kong and the beauty of Maggie Cheung, and how he now longer sees the world through human eyes Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
Music
Grimes: "There’s no time to be repetitive”
Canadian bedroom-pop prodigy Grimes reveals the lengths she’s willing to go to realise her vision Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Theatre
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Get darker... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Music
Speech Debelle Quizzes Talib Kweli
She's a Mercury winning London MC with an inquisitive mind, he's a critically respected Brooklyn rapper with heavy opinions to offload. We put the two together... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Music
The Magnetic Fields: The Strange Powers of Stephin Merritt
Reluctant in interview but with a work ethic to make James Brown proud, The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt explains why he enjoys a good deadline Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
Art
Superclub Turns 1
As Superclub prepare to celebrate their first birthday we hear about their busy month ahead: a series of one-off collaborative events with Edinburgh Printmakers Read more »| 29 Feb 2012