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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Jacknife Lee - Making Me Money
A song that should have accompanied Christian Bale in American Psycho, epitomising 80's yuppie money making chic in a stylish and funky manner Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Filthy Gorgeous, Maggie Mays, Glasgow, 23 Sept
With a 5am license and a commitment to making an effort on the interior this is a stress-free party with an emphasis on fun Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Bacardi B-Live presents The Big Groove, Byblos, Glasgow, 23 Sept
Bacardi B-Live's The Big Groove will give Glaswegians the rare opportunity to embrace the sounds of house, disco and hip-hop all under one roof on the September holiday weekend Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
ClubsBreakthrough - Breakthrough
There is a definite old-school hip hop feel to the album, although at times the mixing of different genres can sound somewhat confusing Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Us Kooks Pick Overlooked Books
Our choice of books we feel should be better known… Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Richard Dawkins Event
Insightful and intellectual, without being at all superior. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007
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Anna Politkovskaya Memorial Event - Timothy Phillips
Phillips's talk was as poignant as it was insightful Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Wait Until Spring, Bandini, by John Fante
Fante deserves a much wider audience, however belated Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Sharp Teeth, by Toby Barlow
A very unique book: an epic poem about werewolves in modern-day Los Angeles Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Reporting, by David Remnick
Double-filtered excellence Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Diamond Dove, by Adrian Hyland
Hyland's story, while hugely entertaining, also deals with serious issues that face rural Australia today Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Funk La Planet Allstars feat. Toni Smith - Summertime
It's inoffensive, mainstream armchair dance music Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
ClubsElektrons - Get Up
Block party style beats and brass stabs combine with Pete Simpson's soulful tribute to the Electric Chair, as Jurassic 5's Soup adds his rhyme skills Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Skitz - Requiem Of The Gods
Unfortunately the second half is deficient in originality, as Dynamite MC's ability to stay on topic is watered down by the over-saturated crunk instrumental Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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The Flying Lurinskys (live), JakN, Studio 24, Edinburgh, 28 Sept
Taking old school rave and cementing it onto banging techno loops with some hints of electro, TFL will be literally destroying the club with their material Read more »| 08 Sep 2007