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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TheatreCommitted @ The Lantern
Tackling the controversial topic of the IRA in 1993 is no mean feat. Just ask writer Stephen Smith, whose new play, Committed, was considered too radical for... Read more »| 10 Dec 2014 -
MusicTYCI announce line-up for Christmas All-Dayer in Glasgow
Female-led Scottish arts blog TYCI have revealed details of an all day festival of music, spoken word, arts and performance set to take place in Glasgow late... Read more »| 10 Dec 2014 -
MusicDeathcats @ Stereo, Glasgow, 5 December
This might not be Deathcats’ last ever show. It’s not even their final gig of the year. But it has the feeling of a farewell party all the same; ... Read more »| 10 Dec 2014 -
TheatreThe Bartered Bride @ The Lowry
Seventies flares and lovable bears: Opera North’s comic-turned-communist production of The Bartered Bride is well worth Czech-ing it out, esp... Read more »| 10 Dec 2014 -
Music
Death Grips drop ‘Inanimate Sensation’ video
Death Grips have reemerged with a video for ‘Inanimate Sensation’, taken from the second half of their final double album The Powers That B. The... Read more »| 10 Dec 2014 -
Film
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
What began with An Unexpected Journey ends in an altogether expected fashion, as Peter Jackson wraps up his frequently misguided three-part adaptation o... Read more »| 10 Dec 2014
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Film
First events announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2015
Glasgow Film Festival have unveiled the first glimpses of the 2015 programme, with a mini-festival of online cat videos and a unique film and music night fea... Read more »| 10 Dec 2014 -
Art
Christmas parties, GSA students and art on eBay: This Week in Scottish Art
This week in Scottish art, the latest group of MFA students from Glasgow School of Art hit the road, Scott Massey launches a new project, and Transmission host a Christmas party Read more »| 09 Dec 2014 -
Books
Crow Bait by Douglas Skelton
A gory and razor-sharp crime novel from the start, Douglas Skelton’s Crow Bait moves at breakneck speed like a getaway car on the dark streets of Glasg... Read more »| 08 Dec 2014 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – December 2014
As expected, this month's film events have a Yuletide vibe, with classics like Die Hard, Gremlins and The Muppet Christmas Carol heading to a big screen near you Read more »| 08 Dec 2014 -
Comedy
The Skinny's Christmas Crackers
We’ve got industrial-strength puns, rock-solid punchlines and grincredible (watch out) jokes for when your supermarket crackers fail Read more »| 08 Dec 2014 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Christmas Cards 2014
The Skinny Showcase: Christmas Cards 2014 Read more »| 08 Dec 2014 -
Clubs
The Burgh to the Boroughs and Back: Craig Smith
Ahead of his Hogmanay appearance for Nightvision in the capital, the local disco veteran tells us he’s preparing for a hectic year Read more »| 08 Dec 2014 -
Film
Manakamana
From Harvard’s experimental Sensory Ethnography Lab, which gave us 2012’s haunting fishing vessel doc Leviathan, comes Manakamana. This is an&nbs... Read more »| 08 Dec 2014 -
Comedy
Spotlight: Will Setchell
Presenting: the first of our Spotlighters to take on a gibbon Read more »| 08 Dec 2014