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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FilmScottish Film Events: June 2023
This month The Folk Film Gathering returns with a focus on Ukrainian cinema and gives some classic Play for Today films the big screen treatment Read more »| 31 May 2023 -
MusicScottish Live Music Highlights: June 2023
Festival season kicks off, plus big gigs from CHVRCHES, Wu-Tang Clan and Arctic Monkeys – here's our pick of June's best gigs across Scotland Read more »| 30 May 2023 -
MusicCaroline Polachek @ SWG3, Glasgow, 25 May
Caroline Polachek brings grace, glamour and grit to the SWG3 Galvanizers’ stage for her knock-out Scottish debut Read more »| 30 May 2023 -
FilmTina Satter on NSA whistleblower thriller Reality
Life proves stranger than fiction in Reality, Tina Satter's gripping real-time thriller about NSA whistleblower Reality Winner. Satter tells us why she wanted to dramatise Winner's life by using verbatim transcripts of her interrogation by the FBI Read more »| 30 May 2023 -
BooksYan Ge on her debut English-language collection Elsewhere
Yan Ge introduces her debut English-language collection Elsewhere, a group of short stories hopping from Dublin to colonial-era Burma to ancient China Read more »| 29 May 2023 -
BooksBored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella
Tony Santorella’s witty and sharp debut novel follows its titular bored gay werewolf as he navigates encountering his fellow beasts Read more »| 29 May 2023
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FilmReality
Sydney Sweeney stars as whistleblower Reality Winner in this compelling, quiet-spoken thriller based on dialogue taken from Winner's FBI interrogation Read more »| 29 May 2023 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: June 2023
Exams are over, University is out and it’s officially summer. Top June picks include nights from Facta & K-LONE, DJ Gigola b2b MCR-T, Jana Rush and BFTT Read more »| 29 May 2023 -
FilmThe Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer explores the banality of evil in The Zone of Interest, which just picked up the Grand Prix at Cannes Read more »| 28 May 2023 -
ArtA Fragile Correspondence: Scotland at the Venice Architecture Biennale
Our design correspondent heads to Venice to explore A Fragile Correspondence, Scotland's presentation at the Architecture Biennale Read more »| 26 May 2023 -
FilmMedusa Deluxe
Thomas Hardiman's debut feature Medusa Deluxe is an inventive one-shot murder mystery set in the cutthroat world of competitive hairdressing Read more »| 26 May 2023 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: June 2023
June in Scotland's theatres sees returning Edinburgh Fringe hits, a new celebration of Billy Connolly, and evenings of storytelling at the CCA Read more »| 26 May 2023 -
TheatreAnna Karenina @ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Lesley Hart's fresh adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina tells a passionate story at a heady pace Read more »| 25 May 2023 -
MusicSpotlight On... Pearling
Ahead of releasing her debut EP, we shine a spotlight on Glasgow 'fairy pop' producer Pearling Read more »| 25 May 2023 -
ArtSmashing Monuments, statues, and collective memory
The UK premiere of Sebastián Díaz Morales’ film Smashing Monuments questions the functions of monuments in our collective memory – but also whether our cities can really meet our everyday needs Read more »| 24 May 2023