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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ClubsCarrying the Torch: Channel One Sound System
Ahead of his visit to Edinburgh's Wee Dub Festival, we speak to Channel One Sound System's Mikey Dread. He shares his thoughts on the resilience of roots reggae, the sound system scene and fighting for his corner at last year's Notting Hill Carnival Read more »| 02 Mar 2015 -
FilmPride
Doing for the LGBT community what The Help did for African Americans, Pride conspires toward a feel-good conclusion by affirming the human spirit's tenacity ... Read more »| 02 Mar 2015 -
Books
The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón by Carlos Gamerro
Ernesto Marroné is a corporate warrior, a sales samurai who takes How to Win Friends and Influence People as his Bushido code. Even as his countrymen ... Read more »| 02 Mar 2015 -
Art
Ballet of the Palette @ GoMA
Artists from last year’s Picture Show have put together an exhibition of paintings selected from the Glasgow collections. It’s a clever crossing ... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
ArtComicbooks, Perms, A-ha: This Month in Scottish Art
Across Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh, there are several major new exhibitions opening throughout March, as well as accompanying conversation and discussion events Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
Art
Dictatorship and Democracy @ Goethe-Institut
What is art? It is leaving beauty and pleasure behind and recognising the entity as part of everyday life. The analysis is Leo Tolstoy’s and one wonder... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015
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Comedy
Crystal Baws: March 2015 Horoscopes
ARIESThis month, having heard that methane released in cow farts is a major factor contributing to global warming, you invent a revolutionary new wind turbin... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
Art
RSA New Contemporaries: All Hail the Class of 2014
A mainstay of the Scottish art calendar, the annual RSA New Contemporaries exhibition lives up to the hype with the brightest graduates of 2014 Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
ArtMetamorphosis of Japan After the War @ Open Eye Gallery
Metamorphosis opens with an image of the sun that shone above photographer Hiroshi Hamaya’s home in Niigata around noon on August 15, 1945. War was off... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Maeve Redmond
Maeve Redmond is a freelance graphic designer who works primarily with Scotland’s artists, writers and cultural organisations. She has worked as our le... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
Art
Playtime @ Cornerhouse, Manchester
The first time I visited Playtime, the last exhibition ever to be mounted at Cornerhouse (before it moves to its new HOME), it was the opening weekend last N... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
Music
Death from Above 1979 / Turbowolf @ The Ritz, Manchester, 24 February
“Did anybody see us a few months ago, across the road?” Therein lies part of the problem with tonight’s Death from Above 1979 show. Th... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
Books
Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
Ghettoside, that wonderful neologism, forms the title of this dark and murderous LA noir. The only problem being that it’s 100% real. LA Times reporte... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
Clubs
Skinned #7: Jerome Hill [Don't]
Ahead of his appearance at the Bloc Weekend next month, the ever-industrious Londoner delivers a typically turbo-charged foray through his heaving techno and acid crates Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
Music
Swans, The Cribs and Peace added to Liverpool Sound City
Reactivated post-punk experimentalists Swans have been announced among the latest additions to the Liverpool Sound City bill. Fellow new announcements ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015