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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Books
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
Kids will love this, adults will pretend they don't but will anyway. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Books
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
Bukowski combines the clash of creative processes and a business-orientated world with a seedy portrait of 1980s Los Angeles. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Books
Dear Laura: Letters from a Mother to her Daughter
Incites powerful emotions of pain and freedom Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Books
Exit Wounds - Rutu Modan
Mysteries are not entirely solved, the plot is not predictable, and more than one unlikely romance emerges. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Books
Donkey Punch by Ray Banks
his hardboiled writing style has become more poised and confident. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Caledonia's Last Stand by Nat Edwards
This expedition was so monumentally ambitious that its failure bankrupted Scotland. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007
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Books
Agamemnon's Daughter by Ismail Kadare.
There are parallels with societies the world over Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Clubs
Blak Twang - Help Dem Lord/Thumbz Up
With Dubstep and Grime currently acting as the twins tumultuous of London's urban music scene, many outsiders have practically forgotten about the once massive and fruitful London hip-hop scene of which Blak Twang is now something of a veteran Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Clubs
Craig Smith & The Revenge - CSRV 1
Fans of Smith's other works will no doubt relish the un-rushed funk and flow of these well executed and desirable tracks Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Clubs
Deportivo Street Team - Street Sevens Part 2
An immediate point of comparison would be early material from The Youngsters on F-Comm, only with a rougher and rawer production aesthetic Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Clubs
Employee of the Month - The Anomalies
If rumours are to be believed, their live set is even better Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Clubs
M.A.N.D.Y (Phillip Jung), We Are…. Electric , The Cabaret Voltaire, 15 Aug
The gargantuan We Are... Electric turns two this August amidst a dynamite extravaganza of a birthday party Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
Cross Reference 2007 @ Ego
Whilst we watch silly entertainment, the Red Cross are busy helping people with far more important things to worry about Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
Bricolage - The Waltzers
The old school chum you'd bet your life on Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
XFM Column - August
It's all about Dave... Read more »| 09 Aug 2007