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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FilmThe Hedgehog
Mona Achache’s film, The Hedgehog (Le Hérisson), might have easily descended into a cloying tale of the miseries of Paris’ bourgeoisie. El... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Music
iconAclass: "We didn't invent poverty and violence"
As tabloid tattlers blame his beloved genre for the London riots, Dälek MC Will Brooks steps out with iconAclass – a new project of pure hip-hop Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
FilmHero Worship: Brian De Palma
"I came for the naked school girls, I stayed for De Palma's baroque brilliance." Film editor Jamie Dunn gives us an insight into his adoration of Brian de Palma Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Art
Stop the Presses: September
FINAL FESTIVAL: It didn’t quite fit in this issue, but we would still like to recommend Kaleidoscope Festival on the weekend 30 Sep-2 Oct at Kinkell Fa... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
MusicThe Dirty Dozen – September 2011
Coercing Chad VanGaalen, self-pronounced 'worst critic in the world', into dissecting the month’s singles is no easy task Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Books
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
This earthy tale is set at a 1970s Virginia racetrack, in the deeply unglamorous, chancy world of claiming races. A ragtag band of characters survive... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011
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Music
Nurses – Dracula
If you find Animal Collective awesome in theory but too obtuse in reality, Nurses offer a safer, less pioneering alternative. They specialise in dub-psych do... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
FilmSeptember Film Highlights
The DCA in Dundee is showing a wide range of classic movies this month, all worth seeing on the big screen, including three films from Ealing Studios. The Br... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Music
Sound Lab: Chemikal Engineering
As if seminal Glasgow label Chemikal Underground hasn’t given enough to the world of music, its Chem 19 studio will be playing host to Sound Lab Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Art
Ruth Ewan @ DCA
Where art meets history may be the most appropriate way to summarise Ruth Ewan’s enlightening and often wonderfully nostalgic collection of objects, in... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Music
Trips and Falls – People Have to Be Told
Managing Trips and Falls, Preventing Trips and Falls, Avoid Trips and Falls, How to Reduce Trips and Falls… a cursory googling and it appears the whol... Read more »| 01 Sep 2011 -
Theatre
Greek: An opera based on Steven Berkoff's play @ The Traverse
Opera Greek style Read more »| 31 Aug 2011 -
Music
PAWS: Smells Like Something Else
While PAWS might conveniently fit the bill for a grunge revival, the Glasgow trio have a few more tricks up their sleeves Read more »| 31 Aug 2011 -
Music
Chemikal Underground's Emma Pollock on the Sony/PIAS blaze
Emma Pollock reacts to last month's Sony/PIAS Distribution Warehouse fire, which obliterated stock belonging to countless independent labels in the wake of the London riots, and explains the repercussions for the record industry Read more »| 31 Aug 2011 -
Music
Flogging Molly @ The Garage, 25 August
If there's one thing Flogging Molly are good at, it's pulling in a diverse crowd. Leathered and studded punks, muscle freaks, kilted hellions; they're all he... Read more »| 31 Aug 2011