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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FilmProject Nim
In 1967, The Jungle Book’s King Louie sang “an ape like me, can learn to be human too”. Six years later, Professor Herb Terrace indirectly ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011 -
MusicRemi Kabaka – Black Goddess: The Soundtrack from Ole Balogun’s Film
It’s a given that all things eventually return to fashion, and the 70s is no exception. Some, like the carwash climax of Black Belt Jones, deserve to b... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011 -
Music
Stephen Malkmus: Man in the Mirror
Erstwhile Pavement frontman and de facto Jicks leader Stephen Malkmus ponders the imagery behind Mirror Traffic Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
Music
The Dead Man's Waltz: "We’re blurring that line between audience and band"
Accordionist Leighton Jones explains why folk-noir revivalists The Dead Man’s Waltz are bringing Vaudevillian theatre to their compelling live show Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
Music
Wickerman 2011
Now in its tenth year, The Wickerman Festival is no longer a fledgling on the circuit. Back in the early days, it’s unlikely the organisers would have ... Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
Art
Peles Empire: Carmen Sylva @ Sierra Metro, 7 Aug-11 Sep
Peles Empire is a collaboration between London-Based German artists Katharina Stoever and Barbara Wolff. An ongoing project, Peles Empire takes its name from... Read more »| 04 Aug 2011
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Film
Citizen Nim: An interview with James Marsh
Raised in 70s New York bohemia, Project Nim's eponymous chimp really was the king of the swingers. We speak to Man on Wire director James Marsh about his latest documentary Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
Art
National Museum of Scotland Reopens
It was a scene that would have had Jeff Goldblum’s heart racing. A little after 9am, on a temperate Friday morning in Edinburgh, a Tyrannosaurus Rex ca... Read more »| 04 Aug 2011 -
MusicThe Dirty Dozen – August 2011
With a range of middling-to-shite singles from some of the big guns, it’s down to the wee guys and girls to bring the goods this August Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Film
Super 8
Young buck Joe (Joel Courtney) and his chums witness a horrendous, deliberate train-wreck whilst shooting their zero-budget zombie splatterfest on the eponym... Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Film
Confessions of a Dog
Filmed back in 2005, director Gen Takahashi struggled to get Confessions of a Dog screened domestically, its depiction of police corruption apparently cuttin... Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
MusicGanglians – Still Living
While pleasant, there was a perceptible cooling in attitudes towards Fleet Foxes when Helplessness Blues appeared earlier this year: the traits that first br... Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
MusicWarpaint: "Sex should be in the music of the song, more than the costume or the act"
Warpaint's Jenny Lee Lindberg weighs in on Gaga, dances with Slash and dresses like Oor Wullie Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Music
Tom Morello: Rebel Without A Pause
With protests on the streets of America and uprising in the Middle East, what better time for Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello to kick his politicising alter-ego The Nightwatchman up a gear? Read more »| 03 Aug 2011 -
Music
The Horrors: “This whole thing has been a learning process”
From the rooftop of their London studio, The Horrors explain a strange ascent Read more »| 03 Aug 2011