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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TheatreOvid's Metamorphoses @ Tron
It's wonderful to see a group of people who are not only willing, but who are actually able to completely disregard the limitations of genre: performers who ... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
TheatreMother Courage @ The Tron
In a time when the arts are under threat, and political unrest is both fashionable and necessary, Birds of Paradise intelligently revive Brecht's celebrated ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2011 -
MusicStarter For Eleven: Adam Goldberg
Facing a pop quiz on the phenomenon of the actor turned musician, Adam Goldberg battles for his supper Read more »| 02 Apr 2011 -
Music
Low – C'mon
Low have been making beautiful albums for almost two decades now, but ninth effort C’mon may stand as their most gorgeous yet. The Minnesota trio have ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Theatre
Midsummer's Night Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most read, most performed and most studied plays. It is one of only two Shakespeare plays to co... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
MusicMono/Poly – Manifestations EP
Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder imprint does a solid line in off-kilter hip-hop productions with soul; the label counts among its prodigious ranks the like... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011
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Music
The Imagineers - See As I Say
Glasgow 4-piece The Imagineers’ debut EP is nothing if not a promising start, an intriguing blend of 50s rock’n’roll, Scottish twang and ci... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
TheatreScottish Ballet's Alice
Scottish Ballet go through the looking glass to Lewis Carroll's mysterious world Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Film
Film Events in April
The Cameo in Edinburgh continues its Werner Herzog season with Even Dwarfs Started Small (6 April), featuring a cast entirely made up of dwarves. It is follo... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Film
Somewhere
With its insider depiction of Hollywood life Somewhere will do little to change the minds of those critics who have seen director Sofia Coppola as a movie br... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Comedy
Comedy Act of the Month: David Innes
In the vast sea of entrants at last year's Laughing Horse New Act Competition, David Innes shone out. So what's his story? Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Clubs
Coalition presents AC Slater (Trouble & Bass) @ Sneaky Pete's, 17 April
Having recently hosted a packed out night with Dutch wonder kid Dem Slackers last month, Coalition are back with another heavy hitter on the electro scene: A... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Music
The Goldberg Sisters – The Goldberg Sisters
Adam Goldberg is The Hebrew Hammer, director of I Love Your Work, Julie Delpy’s squeeze in Two Days in Paris – oh, and Chandler Bing’s nutt... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Music
tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
How do you follow a debut that fashioned pieces of Dictaphone recordings into a dog-eared – but utterly bewitching – showpiece of low-fidelity po... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Music
Something Beginning With L – The Listed Building EP
Don't let the opener of London trio Something Beginning With L’s debut EP deter you from further investigation. Angel Sized might prove to be a... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011