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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ArtGlasgow International 2016 Openings: Booze Guide
A rundown of Glasgow International's first weekend opening extravaganza, with an eye on the free beers, wines and whiskeys promised around the city. GI 2016: one beer at a time Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: April 2016 Horoscopes
Mystic Mark returns with his April predictions, turning his powers to technology, the Islamic State, and your cat Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Theatre5 Films You May Not Know Are Based on Shakespeare
From unrequited love to the circle of life, we look at some of the films (and TV) adapted from and inspired by the works of William Shakespeare Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Books
And The Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis
Last January, Yanis Varoufakis was catapulted from a quiet life as an economics professor into the centre of the eurozone crisis, as finance minister in Gree... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Film
Scottish Film Event Highlights – April 2016
It's anarchy in our cinemas this month, with blood, radicalism and alchemy on our screens courtesy of Dead by Dawn, the Radical Film Festival and the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Film
Couple in a Hole
A mysterious study in the devastating power of loss Read more »| 30 Mar 2016
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Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights – April 2016
Our rundown of this month's best nights in Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Music
John Carpenter – Lost Themes II
There's always a strong sense of trepidation when it comes to approaching any sequel; difficult to supress the scepticism that it's not the usual indolent of... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Film
Eureka
Nicolas Roeg's underappreciated Eureka, starring Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke and Joe Pesci, comes to Blu-ray Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
FilmRocco and His Brothers
Luchino Visconti epic family saga gets its first Blu-ray release, from Masters of Cinema Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Music
Composer-Curator: Isabel Jones and Duncan Chapman
As part of new music charity Sound and Music's Composer-Curator programme, Isabel Jones and Duncan Chapman are touring White Cane – an explor... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Music
The Duke Spirit @ Deaf Institute, 23 Mar
Four years since they last pitched up round here, no new material to promote, and for the first time in living memory touts ply their greasy wares outside De... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Art
Stewart Home: The Unquotable Interview
The esoterically erudite Stewart Home walks us through the influences for his upcoming Glasgow International exhibition Re-Enter the Dragon, at Queens Park Railway Club. Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Music
Colin Stetson – SORROW
Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 is a masterpiece of minimalism. It makes sense, then, that a fellow master of the minimal – avant-garde saxo... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Music
Parquet Courts – Human Performance
After last year’s wilfully difficult Monastic Living EP, you’d be forgiven for expecting Parquet Courts’ latest full-length album to take a... Read more »| 29 Mar 2016