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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Art
Karl Haendel - Make Me A Down a Pallet on Your Floor
In one space, Haendel has managed to simulate the entire impact of the media Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Art
Jeremy Deller
One bewildered woman strolled past the work and knocked on the office door, asking where the exhibition was Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Film
Withnail and I: 20 Years On
between Hamlet and hangovers Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Film
The Eye…Infinity
the film's comic touches sit uneasily with its attempts at atmospheric horror Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Why Bonobo's 'Days To Come' Feels So Real
a confident, rounded, multi-instrumental sound. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Theatre
The Merchant of Venice
as is typical of many of Shakespeare's plays, the action drags on for too long Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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Theatre
Two
The denouement is not so much redemptive as repulsive Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Interview: James Yorkston - Sympathy for the Leopard
This one is definitely a James Yorkston album - all the arrangements are mine, I did most of the work! Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Kelley Stoltz @ King Tuts
too polite, constrained and timid: no dazzling solos, no profound insights into life Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Film
TV releases
The universally lauded 'Best TV Show of All Time' just keeps on going Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Film
Three Extremes (Dir. Fruit Chan, Park Chan-Wook, Takeshi Miike)
A great starter for three if you have yet to be introduced to Asian horror as a genre, or to any of the directors of 'Three Extremes'. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
Lupe Fiasco - Daydreamin'
Lupe Fiasco, rising star of anti-thug hip-hop, chops out a single that looks set to follow his debut Kick Push onto radio playlists everywhere Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
Part-time Heroes - Realise EP
These two producers have chucked out an enjoyable four-track EP which flashes with moments of inspiration, but never actually catches flame. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
Hot Chip: Over and Over
Club anthem? More apt as soundtrack to that last spliff of the night before falling asleep àon a weeknight at that! Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
The Answer - Under the Sky
Their influences are self-evident but The Answer are far from derivative. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006