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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Film
Fantastic Four: Reserving Judgement - Surf's Up
Let's be careful not to write movies and actors off before we see them. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Books
The End Of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
A hugely playful novel, tripping over itself with name-dropping and then theory-dropping. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Books
Eating Jesus
Eating Jesus manages to avoid the numerous cliches it could have stumbled into Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Film
Ten Canoes
The oral tradition is captured well by this ""story within a story within a story"". Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
The Dials @ Ego
Still learning new and more devious ways to sound both several years ahead of their birth certificates as well as more and more muscular by the day Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Soul Circus @ ABC2
good time, blue-collar rock, with lyrics celebrating the joy of life and lust. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007
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Music
Pipettes @ The Garage
Exciting, enthusiastic and effortlessly sexy, everything a girl group should be. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Conflict Diamonds / Arse2Mouth @ Henry's Cellar Bar
Machine gun-spitting guitar fury, potentially crowd-injuring drumming and natty waistcoats. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Field Music / Future Pilot AKA feat Found @ Bongo Club
First up, Glasgow's maverick artist Future Pilot AKA presents somewhat of a problem. On record his sometimes brilliant compositions have been graced with par... Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Comedy
STARS - June 2007
GeminiHas your faith deserted you? Was it chocolate pudding? Oooh that'll stain! She's a bitch! Lucky jibe: "Fud pus!"CancerMars is re-stimulating itself int... Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Art
The Scottish Show 2007
the show juxtaposes high quality art with prospects of prototyping for commercialism Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Books
AL Kennedy on Day (ONLINE VERSION!!!!!)
AL Kennedy has a secret: ""I am trying, desperately trying to get to write Doctor Who"" Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Film
Goya's Ghosts
The film's dazzling array of accents is its chief debt to Pythonesque absurdity. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Clubs
Noise of Art, The Caves, Edinburgh, 17 May
Noise of Art returns this month; the travelling festival of electronic music, visuals, and strong links with the Berlin scene, is going underground in Edinburgh Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Clubs
Liquid Room - Ten Years at the Top!
As part of their ongoing celebrations throughout May, the Liquid Room brings you lucky Edinburgh peeps two special club nights that are not to be missed. Read more »| 11 May 2007