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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MusicWhitelands – Night-bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day
Whitelands' second debut album is hazy and intriguing, but we're left wanting more edge Read more »| 19 Feb 2024 -
MusicReal Estate – Daniel
The jangly New Jerseyans provide another nugget of blissful escapism Read more »| 19 Feb 2024 -
BooksThe Skinny on... Anahit Behrooz
She wrote the actual book on radical intimacy and love in female friendship. As The Skinny's very own Anahit Behrooz prepares to release her second book, Mapping Middle-earth, we ask her some increasingly intrusive questions Read more »| 19 Feb 2024 -
FilmPerfect Days
Wim Wenders serves a bittersweet slice-of-life with a commanding central performance from Kōji Yakusho as a hard-working Tokyo toilet cleaner Read more »| 16 Feb 2024 -
MusicSpotlight On... Gallus
Following the release of their latest single, Wash Your Wounds, and ahead of their forthcoming Scottish tour, we catch up with Gallus Read more »| 15 Feb 2024 -
FilmViggo Mortensen, George Mackay set for Glasgow Film Festival
Rose Glass, Maxine Peake, George Mackay and Viggo Mortensen are among the stars set to appear at the 20th edition of the Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 15 Feb 2024
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FilmEdinburgh Film Festival announce £50,000 Sean Connery Prize
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced two huge prizes for this year’s edition: one for best short film and one for best feature Read more »| 14 Feb 2024 -
Tv RadioLove Lessons with Married At First Sight Australia
Trusting the process, causing chaos and traumatising those around you – welcome to the world of Married At First Sight Australia Read more »| 14 Feb 2024 -
MusicGrandaddy – Blu Wav
Jason Lytle finally comes down to earth for a startlingly assured embrace of alt-country Read more »| 14 Feb 2024 -
MusicWilliam Doyle – Springs Eternal
William Doyle’s latest is a mixed bag, as capable of passages of delicate, elegiac beauty as it is of flailing missteps Read more »| 14 Feb 2024 -
ComedyDream Gig: Ian Smith
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated stand-up and co-host of Northern News podcast, Ian Smith has a Dream Gig to rival U2's Las Vegas residency Read more »| 13 Feb 2024 -
BooksThe Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor
In the distant future, a woman walks into a tattoo parlour to tell the tale of her interconnected tattoos in this mesmerising and blistering exploration of male violence and female solidarity Read more »| 13 Feb 2024 -
MusicIDLES – TANGK
A raucous expression of love, TANGK is raw, vulnerable and inimitably IDLES Read more »| 12 Feb 2024 -
MusicLime Garden on friendship and their debut album
Wonky pop party band Lime Garden unleash their debut album this month, proving that there is nothing better than getting up on stage and having fun with your mates Read more »| 12 Feb 2024 -
MusicLime Garden – One More Thing
Brighton four-piece Lime Garden show signs of bigger things to come on debut album One More Thing Read more »| 12 Feb 2024