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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ComedyCrystal Baws: May 2016 Horoscopes
ARIESEvery time you touch your penis it swells up. Makes you think you might have an allergy. Talking to the doctor about possible causes, you tell them you&... Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – May 2016
'Gigs' feels like an insufficient term for the sensory treats in store this May: from Immix Ensemble's collaboration with Vessel to the return of sonic demigod Tim Hecker Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Music
Restless Natives sets up in Glasgow's East End
Keen to redress the cultural balance in Glasgow, an ambitious week-long multidisciplinary festival opens its doors at seven venues and studios in and around the East End from 9-15 May. We talk to some of the players behind Restless Natives Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Film
Only Angels Have Wings
Cary Grant stars in Howard Hawks' witty and tragic melodrama Only Angels Have Wings, which comes to UK Blu-ray via the Criterion Collection Hollywood giant ... Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
MusicJulianna Barwick – Will
The latest from the Brooklyn-based composer offers further fascination for those hypnotised by the ambient soundscapes of 2013's breakthrough Nepenthe. ... Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
FilmKnight of Cups
Terrence Malick is back with Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Natalie Portman. The film's as beautiful as you'd expect, but plot a... Read more »| 03 May 2016
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Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights – May 2016
Tapes'n'techno in Glasgow? Disco-drenched French house in the capital? Whichever nightlife-based frolics take your fancy, here's a sample of the many clubbing highlights in Scotland this month Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – May 2016
With summer festival season setting up its boggin' two-man tent in a field near you in just a minute, May’s Scottish live music hit list offers respite in the great indoors Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Film
Scottish Film Event Highlights – May 2016
In Edinburgh and Glasgow's cinemas this month, catch a retrospective of cinema's great visual poet, Andrei Tarkovsky, plus the best of Ibero-American documentary and the return of the Film Folk Gathering Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 3-9 May
There is a whole range of performances, panels and openings this week, with Sue Tompkins in Edinburgh, the MFA Interim Show in Glasgow, archive discussions in Dundee, and much more besides! Read more »| 03 May 2016 -
Film
Ran
Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning take on Shakespeare's King Lear comes to Blu-ray to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death A battle rages and the... Read more »| 02 May 2016 -
Film
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Released as part of The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection from Arrow Films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is one of the German filmmaker's finest achievments Read more »| 02 May 2016 -
Music
Ought @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 22 Apr
Although Broadcast’s low-lying stage has remained unaltered since Ought last played here 2 years ago, the Montreal art-punk quartet’s personal st... Read more »| 02 May 2016 -
Comedy
Comedian Seymour Mace on being "Niche as Fuck"
Self-confessed bitter old man Seymour Mace talks to us ahead of the final outing of his Foster's Award-nominated show, Niche as Fuck, at Liverpool's 81 Renshaw Street Read more »| 29 Apr 2016 -
Film
Nathan Barley – Why being cool is overrated
We take a look back at Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris's seminal sitcom Nathan Barley with Charlie Condou, who played ridiculous magazine editor Jonatton Ye... Read more »| 29 Apr 2016