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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MusicPinegrove @ The Hug & Pint, 7 Sep
It’s heaving in The Hug & Pint tonight. Perhaps it’s the incremental hype built up by Pinegrove’s burgeoning reputation as fine tunesmi... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
TheatreAutumn theatre highlights in the North
Autumn is always a busy time for theatre. Here's our guide to the season's highlights Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Books
Graeme Macrae Burnet makes Man Booker Shortlist
Today the prestigious Man Booker Prize was announced, with a novel from tiny Scottish publisher Saraband making the cut ahead of work by JM Coetzee and AL Kennedy Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Books
Graphic Content: Thought Bubble 2016
Comics fans will gather in Leeds in November for the tenth anniversary of Thought Bubble festival – the UK’s biggest celebration of sequential ar... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Film
Michael Barbieri: from Little Men to Spider-Man
From a Sundance indie to the Spider-Man reboot, it's been an eventful six months for emerging actor Michael Barbieri. We speak to the 14-year-old about keepi... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Theatre
Shifting the stage: Transposing Theatre’s Canon
As a West African transposition of The Duchess of Malfi comes to Leeds, one writer considers the possibilities and pitfalls that come with reimagining the We... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016
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ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 13-19 September
Across Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, this week brings great new exhibitions and events including Embassy's graduate show, the largest show to date of talent Katy Dove, as well as new exhibitions from Mary Mary, Koppe Astner and more ... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Film
What to Watch this Week (12-19 Sep)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Taika Waititi's joyous Hunt for the Wilderpeople and ... Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
Books
Benjamin Markovits: Class War in Rust Belt America
Likened to a season of The Wire scripted by JM Coetzee, You Don't Have to Live Like This is an explosive picture of gentrification amongst Detroit's urban decay. We catch up with its James Tait Black Prize winning author Benjamin Markovits Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
Film
One More Time With Feeling
Nick Cave has always felt untouchable, like some otherworldly entity you can never really get close to. In One More Time With Feeling, for once he feels... Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
FilmI, Daniel Blake
A typically powerful polemic from Loach that speaks directly to the audience's heart Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
Music
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
Nick Cave takes his deepest journey yet on Skeleton Tree, a solemn fugue on death, grief, yearning and both sides of mortality’s coin. Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
Clubs
Dutch Hustle: A Chat With Detroit Swindle
Amsterdam-based duo Detroit Swindle take time out from a busy touring schedule to discuss paying homage to house music, an upcoming show at FLY's Edinburgh Open Air Festival, and a forthcoming release featuring a UK electronic icon Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
Music
How To Dress Well – Care
Tom Krell has long been preoccupied with matters of the heart. As How To Dress Well, his first three albums traversed seriously rocky emotional terrain;... Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
MusicFrankie Cosmos @ Stereo, Sep 5
"I'm - we're - Frankie Cosmos," announces Greta Kline, as her three band members settle themselves behind their instruments; a visual reminder that everythin... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016