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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ComedyEdinburgh University Revue Comedy Championships 2013
Once again, the students of Edinburgh University battled it out for the title of Comedy champion, and a prize which is basically a lump of rock with a piece ... Read more »| 10 May 2013 -
FilmThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 10 May
DFA Records documentary emerges; new music from ADULT., The National, CHVRCHES, Dope Body and Factory Floor; Spacemen 3 back catalogue reissued; plus a look at Margins Book & Music Festival and Dunoon Film Festival Read more »| 10 May 2013 -
Film
Hero Worship: Ken Loach
Take One Action Film Festival director Simon Bateson remembers his first encounters with the work of English-Scottish double act, Ken Loach and Paul Laverty Read more »| 10 May 2013 -
Film
Star Trek Into Darkness
J.J. Abrams’ latest instalment of his rebooted Star Trek franchise has the potential to divide audiences because of certain narrative decisions that, d... Read more »| 09 May 2013 -
FilmMud
Jeff Nichols’ strong follow-up to 2011’s Take Shelter is another examination of male conflict; this time in the form of a coming-of-age adventure... Read more »| 09 May 2013 -
ArtArika 13, Episode 5: Hidden In Plain Sight
For their second outing of 2013, Arika take on the world of voguing, drag, clubbing and gender Read more »| 09 May 2013
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Theatre
Arika 13: 20 & 21 Apr, Tramway
Arika's second outing in 2013 is themed around the idea that 'freedom is a constant struggle,' examining the black radical tradition in relation to jazz, poe... Read more »| 09 May 2013 -
Theatre
Arika 13: 18 & 19 Apr, Tramway
It’s Thursday evening, and upstairs in Tramway, M. NourbeSe Philip is laying down the groundwork for what will prove to be one of the festival’s ... Read more »| 09 May 2013 -
Books
Iain Banks: Till The Space Cows Come Home
Following the tragic news that Iain Banks has terminal cancer, we asked Andrew Wilson, who has known Banks for over 20 years, to reflect on the life and work of one of Scotland's greatest authors Read more »| 09 May 2013 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: May 2013 Horoscopes
ARIES After fitting a new kitchen, the plumber accidentally connects your water pipes up to Europe’s largest Industrial Sperm Bank complex. Taking a sh... Read more »| 09 May 2013 -
Music
Tricky – False Idols
In many ways a return to the dynamics of his first (and best) album Maxinquaye, False Idols pairs Tricky's distinctive, half-whispered vocals with the mellif... Read more »| 09 May 2013 -
Music
Mount Kimbie – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
After kickstarting the post-dubstep sound on Crooks & Lovers, Mount Kimbie have turned their attention towards stranger sounds and more challenging ... Read more »| 09 May 2013 -
Music
Sparrow and the Workshop – Murderopolis
Since their first EP dropped four years ago, Sparrow and the Workshop have stacked up the accolades for a sound that, in lesser hands, would border on pastic... Read more »| 09 May 2013 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 8 May
In today's Bulletin: Lauryn Hill jailed for tax evasion; stream the Killing Joke box set; new music from Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Nick Cave and Adam Stafford; a look at Refugee Week Scotland; plus: the world's first 3D-printed handgun Read more »| 08 May 2013 -
FilmHero Worship: Pedro Costa
Filmmaker and cineaste D W Mault explains why he worships Portuguese director Pedro Costa, and the oppressive stillness of his cinema Read more »| 08 May 2013