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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MusicEast India Youth / Leopard of Honour / Swimming Lessons @ Kraak, 12 Mar
Though it's been with us for four years, Kraak – located off the beaten track and identifiable only to those who know where to look – remains Man... Read more »| 19 Mar 2013 -
TheatreVenue of the Month: The French Institute
The Institut Francais d'Ecosse is more than just a Fringe venue and a cultural outpost for Scottish Francophiles. This March they're playing host to two very special plays Read more »| 18 Mar 2013 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 18 March
In today's Bulletin: the return of Lee 'Scratch' Perry and The Orb, the rise of the 'virtual fan,' new music from Death Grips, Pet Shop Boys, TNGHT and Lil' Wayne, Depeche Mode and Glasvegas, Team Ghost on tour, and RockNess announces its comedy lineup Read more »| 18 Mar 2013 -
FilmJack the Giant Slayer
The latest in a long, mostly unsuccessful line of revisionary fairy tale adaptations, Jack the Giant Slayer is a half-hearted affair, filled with lacklustre ... Read more »| 18 Mar 2013 -
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Neighbouring Sounds
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s mesmerising and mysterious debut centres on a modern apartment complex in Recife, Brazil, and concerns several residents... Read more »| 18 Mar 2013 -
ArtJennifer Moon @ Transmission, until 27 Apr
Unlike her domineering portrait suggests, Jennifer Moon is mild, almost apologetic, in person. As she explains her theories on the unifying potential of love... Read more »| 18 Mar 2013
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Film
Boxing Day
Time and technology have moved on since Bernard Rose made Ivansxtc, the first of his loose, contemporary adaptations of Tolstoy stories starri... Read more »| 18 Mar 2013 -
Music
Tenement Trail, Glasgow, 9 March
Tenement Trail, Glasgow, 9 March A BIT OF THE ACTION FROM TENEMENT TV'S ALL-DAY FESTIVAL IN GLASGOW Photography by Beth Chalmers & Jassy Earl Read more »| 15 Mar 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 15 March
Watch Harmony Korine and Die Antwoord's bizarre short film; Death Grips and WHY? for ATP; Twitter acquires music app; new tracks from The Bug, Her Parents and The Lonely Together; remix Squarepusher; plus Game of Thrones, 1995 style Read more »| 15 Mar 2013 -
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Steve Carell is Burt Wonderstone, a David Copperfield-esque Vegas illusionist whose career and “magical friendship” with partner Anton (Stev... Read more »| 14 Mar 2013 -
Film
Ken Loach: "We need a new party of the left"
The UK's great socialist filmmaker speaks to us about his latest call to arms, The Spirit of '45 – a potent reminder that it was collectivism, not capitalism, that lifted Britain out of poverty after the Second World War Read more »| 14 Mar 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 13 March
EIF 2013 programme unveiled; Trainspotting 2 confirmed; support School of Seven Bells' Ben Curtis; new music from Dillinger Escape Plan, Earl Sweatshirt, Bigg Taj and Wavves; Iron Maiden make beer; A Tribe Called Quest plan UK comeback... Read more »| 13 Mar 2013 -
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Lapalux in interview: Brainfeeder's latest prodigy talks his psychedelic debut
As he prepares to drop his debut album Nostalchic on Brainfeeder, Stuart Howard aka Lapalux talks to us about memory, tape hiss and the emotions buried in his music Read more »| 13 Mar 2013 -
Books
StAnza International Poetry Festival, St Andrews
StAnza poetry festival director Eleanor Livingstone tells us what attendees can expect this year, what not to miss, and how the recent closure of The Byre Theatre has impacted the programme Read more »| 12 Mar 2013 -
Music
Tartufi – These Factory Days
San Francisco trio Tartufi's penchant for lush sonic textures and gentle guitar picking shines through in every track of their sixth full-length. As such, it... Read more »| 12 Mar 2013