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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MusicDavidge – Slo Light
He has produced for Massive Attack, David Bowie, Primal Scream and others, but this is Neil Davidge's first solo album. Rooted in the architecture and aesthe... Read more »| 25 Feb 2014 -
FilmRIP Harold Ramis, star of Ghostbusters, writer of Caddyshack, director of Groundhog Day
Actor, writer and director Harold Ramis, perhaps most famous for his role as Egon in the 1984 classic Ghostbusters, has died this week aged 69. Ramis was als... Read more »| 25 Feb 2014 -
MusicSt. Vincent – St. Vincent
Annie Clark’s work as St. Vincent has always bore the hallmarks of a restlessly inventive artist, with a magpie ability to mix her rock and pop lineage... Read more »| 25 Feb 2014 -
Music
On Tour: The Afghan Whigs, Nine Inch Nails, Albert Hammond Jr., The Warlocks and more
Just announced, resurgent soul rock mavericks The Afghan Whigs are set to play their first Scottish gig in 16 years in support of forthcoming studio return D... Read more »| 25 Feb 2014 -
TheatreOrlando @ CCA
The CCA – Centre for Contemporary Arts – sees Cryptic reviving Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a tale of a young nobleman from the Elizabethan era sear... Read more »| 25 Feb 2014 -
FilmFilm News: Why Robert Downey Jr. quit Gravity, Peter Dinklage talks X-Men
In today's Film News, Alfonso Cuaron explains why Robert Downey Jr. quit Gravity, Peter Dinklage talks X-Men: Days of Future Past and Game of Thrones, plus we take a look at the return of Heroes, Farscape and Constantine Read more »| 24 Feb 2014
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Theatre
Village Pub Theatre @ Traverse
The end of this month sees Village Pub Theatre – a writer-led theatre collective based in the Village Pub, in Leith – take over Travers... Read more »| 24 Feb 2014 -
Film
Michel Gondreams: The dreamy cinematic world of Michel Gondry
The distinctive French director returns with another unique yet universal reverie. Read more »| 24 Feb 2014 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Dear Green
An exhibition in Berlin highlights the affinities between the German capital and Glasgow, displaying 37 artists brought together by artist-curators Beth Dynowski and Melissa Canbaz Read more »| 24 Feb 2014 -
Film
Phoenix Rises: George Sluizer on River Phoenix's final film Dark Blood
Director George Sluizer discusses his 1993 film Dark Blood, which makes its UK premiere at GFF two decades after production stoped when its young star, River Phoenix, died Read more »| 24 Feb 2014 -
Film
These Birds Walk
Near the middle of These Birds Walk, a documentary about a foundation for runaways and orphans in Karachi, Pakistan, two young boys get into a lengthy scrap ... Read more »| 24 Feb 2014 -
Film
Serpico
As seemingly the only straight-arrow cop in a corrupt-to-the-core NYPD, an increasingly hirsute Al Pacino gives one of his most iconic performances in Serpic... Read more »| 24 Feb 2014 -
Music
Capitol 1212 – The Return of Rudy Nacho
Nobody who sets out to make a Western-inspired reggae, jungle, bass music and hip-hop concept album can be accused of a lack of ambition, and happily, Edinbu... Read more »| 24 Feb 2014 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Takeshi Kouzuki
Japanese house head Takeshi Kouzuki picks his ten favourite tracks of the moment, a tasteful Chicago-leaning selection Read more »| 24 Feb 2014 -
Music
Warpaint, O2 Academy, Liverpool, 20 February
“Ok, this next song is a cover,” says Warpaint’s Theresa Wayman with the artifice of a giddy high school prankster. “Yeah, just to be... Read more »| 24 Feb 2014