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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ComedyICYMI: Rosco McClelland on Back of the Y
Former Scottish Comedian of the Year Rosco McClelland takes on Back of the Y, New Zealand's absurd and raucous answer to Jackass Read more »| 15 Mar 2021 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Josephine Lohoar Self
In this month's Showcase, we look at the work of Scottish BAFTA-nominated writer and director Josephine Lohoar Self Read more »| 15 Mar 2021 -
BooksCipher Press: Bold, Uncompromisingly Queer Books
One year on from the UK going into lockdown, we talk to the founders of Cipher Press to get to know one of the shining lights to have emerged from the pandemic in a celebration of queer publishing Read more »| 12 Mar 2021 -
ArtClass Politics: Introducing The Ignorant Art School
Transformative politics and social justice ambitions tie together Cooper Gallery's new programme, The Ignorant Art School Read more »| 12 Mar 2021 -
BooksKitchenly 434 by Alan Warner
Alan Warner is on top form with this relentless deconstruction of masculine delusion Read more »| 12 Mar 2021 -
MusicFather's Footsteps: Femi & Made Kuti on Legacy+
The father and son discuss their jointly-released solo albums, modern afrobeat, the state of Lagos and the legacy of Fela Read more »| 12 Mar 2021
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Tv RadioHow My Mum Tracy Beaker captured the hearts of 90s kids
Kids' TV heroine Tracy Beaker has made a triumphant return to the BBC, but My Mum Tracy Beaker's success isn't all 90s nostalgia. The original show's underlying issues of social mobility, sexuality and class have been brought to the surface in this reboot Read more »| 10 Mar 2021 -
ComedyPoppy Hillstead Enters Our Chat
As series three of her podcast drops, Poppy Hillstead talks Pixar, mumblers, BTS fans and people’s enduring unease with the word ‘clitoris’ Read more »| 10 Mar 2021 -
FilmShort Circuit: Glasgow Short Film Festival interview
Get the lowdown on Glasgow Short Film Festival's second online edition. They tell us what they've learned after a year of digital festivals and give us some hints about this year's event, which includes dogs and dance but absolutely no Zoom-based dramas Read more »| 10 Mar 2021 -
ClubsTo All the Clubs I've Loved Before
Nearly a year since they shut, our Clubs editor reflects on the wonders of the club toilet and why clubs are so important Read more »| 09 Mar 2021 -
FilmThe Skinny on… Adura Onashile
As Adura Onashile's short film Expensive Shit arrives in film festival programmes this month, we quiz her about dream dinner guests and memories of the before-times Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Spring Blossom
Spring Blossom, from 20-year-old writer-director-star Suzanne Lindon, tells the story of a teen girl's infatuation with an older man. A young, female perspective on this subject is welcome and timely, but Lindon's film is ultimately unsuccessful Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Gunda
Victor Kossakovsky's Gunda invites us into the idyllic-seeming life of a massive pig and her brood of rambunctious piglets Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: Dreams on Fire
Dance movie Dreams on Fire occasionally trades in clichés but thrives when working as an unapologetic examination of trying to make it in a precarious industry Read more »| 08 Mar 2021 -
FilmGFF 2021: A Brixton Tale
There's too much going on in this look at race and love in modern Britain, with A Brixton Tale’s enigmatic first half giving way to a more obvious socioeconomic crime narrative Read more »| 08 Mar 2021