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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Books
Us Kooks Pick Overlooked Books
Our choice of books we feel should be better known… Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Books
Richard Dawkins Event
Insightful and intellectual, without being at all superior. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Books
Anna Politkovskaya Memorial Event - Timothy Phillips
Phillips's talk was as poignant as it was insightful Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Books
Wait Until Spring, Bandini, by John Fante
Fante deserves a much wider audience, however belated Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Books
Sharp Teeth, by Toby Barlow
A very unique book: an epic poem about werewolves in modern-day Los Angeles Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Books
Reporting, by David Remnick
Double-filtered excellence Read more »| 08 Sep 2007
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Books
Diamond Dove, by Adrian Hyland
Hyland's story, while hugely entertaining, also deals with serious issues that face rural Australia today Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Clubs
Funk La Planet Allstars feat. Toni Smith - Summertime
It's inoffensive, mainstream armchair dance music Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Clubs
Elektrons - Get Up
Block party style beats and brass stabs combine with Pete Simpson's soulful tribute to the Electric Chair, as Jurassic 5's Soup adds his rhyme skills Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Clubs
Skitz - Requiem Of The Gods
Unfortunately the second half is deficient in originality, as Dynamite MC's ability to stay on topic is watered down by the over-saturated crunk instrumental Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Clubs
The Flying Lurinskys (live), JakN, Studio 24, Edinburgh, 28 Sept
Taking old school rave and cementing it onto banging techno loops with some hints of electro, TFL will be literally destroying the club with their material Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Akufen (DJ Set), Guillaume, & The Cotou Dumonts (live), Freq, Sub Club, Glasgow, 5 Oct
Soon to have you chanting 'techno, techno, techno' like it was the 90s again. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Clubs
Keb Darge and Cut Chemist - Lost and Found, Rockabilly Jump Blues
Jack Rabbit Slim has nothing on this Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Luminescent Orchestrii @ Cossachok
They respect their sources, while injecting them with a furious energy Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Guillemots @ The Liquid Room
For every step forward they take one back Read more »| 08 Sep 2007