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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Theatre
Sleeping Beauty
A Christmas treat for balletomanes and schoolchildren, informed by Balanchine, Wagner's Ring Cycle, Gothic fashion and the decline of European royal families. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Film
Review of the Year: 2007
It's that time of year again, folks, when we take a look back at the bestest and the worstest movies of the year. Rather than just have me pick my faves, we ... Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Film
The Simpsons Movie
Father d'ohs best Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Art
SURVEY-ing past, present and future
Jay Shukla takes a tour of the show celebrating 20 years of the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, and finds the institution going from strength to strength Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Clubs
Slam, Audion (live), JD Twitch and JG Wilkes (Optimo), Funk D'Void, Pressure, The Arches, Glasgow, 28 Dec
Be sure to put aside some pennies for what promises to be a fantastic night Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Books
Peanuts: from comic strip to bookshelf
Calvin and Hobbs gave its children-as-adults morality a modern edge, Bart Simpson became the post-modern Charlie Brown, while everything from Dilbert to South Park has co-opted Schulz's minimal, clean lines Read more »| 07 Dec 2007
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Books
Undead on Arrival by Nick Smith
Tells an altogether more 'ordinary' zombie story Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Books
Tamara Drewe, by Posy Simmonds
A friendly, almost Archers-feeling story with - gasp! - literary origins Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Books
Edinburgh: 40 Town and Country Walks by Kerry Nelson.
Celebrates the continual contrasts that Edinburgh can offer Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Books
Alias the Cat by Kim Deitch
Deitch's art swirls and enchants, creating a fairy universe bedevilled by sordid behaviour and uncomfortable eroticism Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
Live Music Roundup - December
Gogol Bordello: they give good crazy. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
Gimme Shelter III, 14-16 Dec
No egos, just quality music. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
Foo Fighters @ SECC, 9 Oct
As the Foo's talisman, Dave Grohl swaggers down the runway that leads from the SECC stage directly into the crowd looking every bit the rock God. The problem... Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
Arcane Kore @ Bannermans
Death metal is an unlikely genre to win over hearts in a live setting. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
Viva Glasvegas
"Ian Brown phoned up out of the blue saying he'd got given a demo. The guys heart, spirit and soul was an eye opener" - James Allen Read more »| 07 Dec 2007