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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BooksBooks: One Whole Week of Them
Book Week Scotland will take place from 26 Nov to 2 Dec, during which time hundreds (literally hundreds) of events will take place. Some even look pretty good too. Here's a brief selection of some we like the look of Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
TheatreCasablanca: The Gin Joint Cut @ The Macrobert
Straight from this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Gilded Balloon and the Tron Theatre companies present Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut. Jimmy Chisholm... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
TheatreSonata For A Man And A Boy @ The Macrobert
A well-dressed man in a grey suit and bare feet sits on a black workbench. As the audience - consisting mainly of schoolchildren - shuffles in, he ... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
Music
Hero Worship: Alice Cooper
Before a Halloween Night of Fear descends on Auld Reekie, Duff McKagan explains why Alice Cooper's influence on rock'n'roll cannot be overstated Read more »| 25 Oct 2012 -
MusicOn the Road: The Hazey Janes take Europe with Wilco (Part Three)
Our intrepid explorers navigate the streets of Barcelona and fire themselves up for showtime with a little Chas & Dave... Read more »| 25 Oct 2012 -
Music
Andrzej Korzynski – Secret Enigma
Having already released two of his soundtrack recordings this year, Finders Keepers make good on their ongoing commitment to bring more of this eclectic Po... Read more »| 25 Oct 2012
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Film
Casque D'Or
When Marie and Georges dance together in the opening scenes of Casque D'Or (1952) we know from their smouldering looks that we have a serious case of amour f... Read more »| 24 Oct 2012 -
Film
Santa Sangre
Jodorowsky's unforgettable masterpiece of the macabre finally gets a welcome Bluray release, fully restored and remastered for UK cinephiles. Traumatised by... Read more »| 24 Oct 2012 -
Film
The Passion of Joan of Arc
A silent film from 1928 depicting the trial of Joan of Arc for heresy is never going to be the first choice for a Saturday night's viewing, but this stark, t... Read more »| 24 Oct 2012 -
FilmThe Castle of Cagliostro
The Castle of Cagliostro is a 1979 animated film from Hayao Miyazaki, the anime maestro who would later direct such Studio Ghibli classics as Spirited Away a... Read more »| 24 Oct 2012 -
Music
Jo Mango – Murmuration
It’s been six years since Jo Mango last released a full album. The Glasgow-based songwriter has been far from idle in that time, collaborating with art... Read more »| 24 Oct 2012 -
Music
Trapped Mice – Winter Sun
Winter Sun starts with An Ending: a two-minute instrumental in which plaintive accordion wheezes over traffic noise and sirens, conjuring an enticing ai... Read more »| 24 Oct 2012 -
Music
Reso – Tangram
Reso's full-length debut album starts out promisingly, with a muted arpeggiated synth-line running atop a wash of ambient noise. Within a few minutes we're b... Read more »| 24 Oct 2012 -
Theatre
The Red Hourglass @ The Arches
Alan Bissett’s The Red Hourglass is a tale of human authority shown through the institutionalisation of a bunch of exotic insects. Between the framewor... Read more »| 24 Oct 2012 -
Music
S-Type – Billboard EP
Bobby Perman, aka S-Type's first release in 2005 was a hip-hop themed EP for Surface Pressure. Since 2010's Medusa EP on Phuturelabs, he's turned his attenti... Read more »| 23 Oct 2012