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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ArtJanet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller @ The Fruitmarket
Everybody likes a little emotional manipulation. We pay for drugs, roller coasters and horror movies because they make us feel something, whether it be good,... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Art
Alexander Heim @ Doggerfisher
Heim’s first solo exhibition in the UK questions the role of nature within the urban environment. The main wall of the gallery is interjected with ear... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
ArtAndrew Grassie @ Talbot Rice Gallery
Walking into Andrew Grassie’s first Scottish solo show feels a little like jumping head first into a masterclass for procrastinating postmodernist brai... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
MusicLaura Marling @ Bannerman's, 12 Aug
Alas! I cannot breathe... Laura Marling sweats it out on her Bannerman's debut Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
MusicCalexico - Two Silver Trees
Hailing from Tuscon, Arizona, and naming themselves after a California border town, Calexico has long had a distinctive Southwestern style. Still evincing a... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Music
Popup - Love Triangle / Pull the Fuse
Popup’s thick regionalism and jabbing beats set them up as a seriously interesting prospect Read more »| 18 Aug 2008
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Clubs
Cursor Miner @ Substance, Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, 26 Sept
The madcap maestro of performance dressage, Cursor Miner (Lo Recordings / Noodles), is better known for sensational European electro, slicing in elements of ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Film
The Lion in Winter
Vicious, vitriolic, scheming, manipulative: The Lion in Winter paints a portrait of an utterly venomous royal family. King Henry II (O’Toole) lets his ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Music
Icarus - Monologues
In a funny twist of fate, this writer has been handed Monologues, the debut album from Edinburgh-outfit Icarus, for review, having just critiqued Daedelus&rs... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
MusicCapitol 1212 - Sampler
You don't really hear an awful lot about Scottish hip-hop these days, but if the output from Capitol 1212, the production duo consisting of Edinburgh-based D... Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
Music
Plush - Fed
If you stop to listen, there’s just a hint of that promised genius mumbled amidst his rant Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
Theatre
The Gymnast@ @ Pleasance Courtyard, 3-25 Aug
Serious politics and serious theatre - but do they add up? Read more »| 14 Aug 2008 -
Theatre
Dance Base Presents
Three more shows with three great companies: Dance Base delivers value and quality Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Music
Spiritualized in the next dimension
In time-worn tradition, Spiritualized frontman Jason Pierce finds that there's nothing quite like dying to propel the artist's work into the public consciousness. So he did it, twice! Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Books
A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans
Evans seems to have written this with a film treatment already in mind Read more »| 13 Aug 2008