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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Music
Modest Mouse - Deliver Us From Evil
As his crew of nautical navigators set sail for the Scottish Highlands, Isaac Brock waxes to Paul Mitchell on rain, fame, religion, Marr and Mary Poppins Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
Easy Star All Stars @ The Arches
Gonna move mi backside ova to de Arches, bad like yaz, wen we be trooly havin' a hoopty ride man Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Clubs
Drag King Night @ VelvetStudio 24, 21 July
There's a sense of fun, of flouting the rules Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Art
Naked Ambition
there is an empowering sense that the infinite variegation of the human form is indeed something that deserves to be celebrated by a show as outlandishly ambitious as this Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Art
Chongbin Park - Inside Outside
evokes a sense of estrangement Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Art
Roderick Buchanan - Histrionics
The exhibition uses elements of Scotland's past and present which are associated with the division of the two main beliefs Read more »| 09 Aug 2007
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Clubs
Trocabrahma 07, Glasgow, 27-29 Jul
After a successful run last year, Trocabrahma are back with a bumper line-up spread over three days and three venues. The event is designed to capture the spirit of Brasil and bring it to the stage for fantastic many collaborations. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
ClubsRichard Grey - Warped Bass
Grey's version includes Marc Almond's vocal from the original along with that infamous and unmistakable 'bleep bleep', side-by-side with a house beat certain to get feet tapping Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Film
The Harder They Fall
Yipee-ki-yay motherfucker. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Film
HOW TO DO (ALMOST) ANYTHING - WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM REALITY TV
A big, bottomless cookie jar we know we should walk past, but that just keeps offering us things we never knew we needed. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Film
Die Hard 4.0
A pretty decent action film that's not necessarily a great Die Hard film. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Theatre
42nd Street
anything that might be considered a problem is resolved so instantly that the tone is one of constant jollity and optimism Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Film
Beyond Videodrome
No less than ten years after the introduction of DVD, we're already being presented with the choice of a new generation in the Second Format Wars. But do you remember the first time? Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Film
Alphabet Video July
If... caused plenty of controversy on release but is now rightly regarded as one of the finest British films of the 60s Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Film
Transformers: Beast Wars
Recalls that moment in Big where Tom Hanks questions the point of a robot that turns into a building, asking why it couldn't just be a bug instead Read more »| 10 Jul 2007