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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MusicMike Patton - Mondo Cane
Musically, there's not much ground that Mike Patton hasn't covered, and yet it was with a pang of delicious surprise that we welcomed the news of Mondo Cane:... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
MusicFuture Islands - In Evening Air
From the opening refrain of Baltimore trio Future Islands’ official sophomore release we’re met by the rabid growl of singer and lynchpin Sam Her... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
MusicSteve Mason - Boys Outside
The post-split material released by ex-Beta Band members has been almost as enigmatic as the group’s seminal output on their three EPs and albums. Sing... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
Art
Jim Lambie Metal Urbain @ Modern Institute
The behemoth that is the GI International Festival of Visual Art keeps rumbling along, with Jim Lambie’s solo exhibition marking the opening of the Mod... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
MusicThe Tivoli Vs. Cabaret Voltaire - National Service Rewind
Cabaret Voltaire don’t need much of an introduction – if they weren’t long-established scene vanguards, Blair Street proprietors mi... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
Art
Christoph Büchel @ Tramway
If your taste runs to big, immersive, visceral work that swallows you whole, leads you through an unknown realm and spits you out, bewildered, shaken and sub... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010
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Music
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
The first thing James Murphy ever did as LCD Soundsystem frontman was confess to a serious music addiction. Losing My Edge, his 2002 debut single, was an acu... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
Art
Benny Merris: Bubble and Squeak
Benny Merris has been smoking it up in Amsterdam. He's been going through a hashish Renaissance, he tells me, and it shows. Each of the 19 paintings exhibite... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
The Cherry Orchard
When Chekhov wrote the Cherry Orchard his first audience was his wife, who promptly burst into tears upon finishing it, pissing the great man off no end; he had intended it as a comedy. Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
Looks That Kill
Burlesque gets back to the bump and grind Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
Books
The Diary of Miss Idilia
The Diary of Miss Idilia is classified as a ‘Memoir’ and certainly the facts are there and provide the basis for a terrific story, but the superf... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
Books
Googled: The End of the World As We Know It
Few companies or products gain such a strong public prominence in the world that their name becomes a verb. Those that do have invariably pushed thro... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
ArtSpring 2010 Exhibition @ Axolotl Gallery
The Axolotl Gallery holds a deceptively sugary appeal from Dundas Street; its bright purple shop front displays colourful, surreal paintings promising an arr... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
Music
jj - jj n° 3
Last year, Swedish dream-pop outfit jj scored a critical hit with the imaginatively titled n° 2. n° 3 follows quickly on its heels and unsurprisingly... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
Film
May Film Events
Indulge in some B-movie inspired sex and violence at the Filmhouse on the 1 May when Tarantino’s rarely screened Grindhouse double bill will show. Dea... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010