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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Music
XFM Column
Smells like lounge spirit... Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
ClubsBurial - Untrue
Found sounds that recall broken lighters, twisted rizlas and guttering match flames evoke a wasted smoker's paradise: a beautifully stoned, 4am bliss. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Clubs
Satellite Dub - London Has More Lights
If Moby or the Chemical Brothers had recorded this, they'd be able to buy their own continent Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
XFM Charts
Jim Gellatly's X-posure Top 10 Singles of 20071. The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name2. Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours3. Biffy Clyro - Living I... Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
MusicScouting for Girls - Elvis Ain't Dead
Strictly for fans of banal cutesy pop. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
MusicMinus the Bear - Pole to Pole on a Planet of Ice
These days, Minus the Bear are often to be found travelling the globe, hot on the heels of another blistering gig. But who is around to give them the culinary guidance they need to make sure they survive on the road? Enter, The Skinny's Jamie Borthwick. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007
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MusicA Muso's Top 10: Manic Street Preachers
This month's top 10 mixtape tunes is brought to you in association with whatever product Nicky Wire was using to dye his hair red, badly, while he compiled it for us. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
Smoked Glass
Sometimes there's nothing wrong with being a bit Trad. Arr., as Heather Crumley discovers. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
Metal Up Your Ass - December, 2007
Beat that, Lulu! Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Theatre
Sleeping Beauty
A Christmas treat for balletomanes and schoolchildren, informed by Balanchine, Wagner's Ring Cycle, Gothic fashion and the decline of European royal families. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Film
Review of the Year: 2007
It's that time of year again, folks, when we take a look back at the bestest and the worstest movies of the year. Rather than just have me pick my faves, we ... Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Film
The Simpsons Movie
Father d'ohs best Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Art
SURVEY-ing past, present and future
Jay Shukla takes a tour of the show celebrating 20 years of the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, and finds the institution going from strength to strength Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Clubs
Slam, Audion (live), JD Twitch and JG Wilkes (Optimo), Funk D'Void, Pressure, The Arches, Glasgow, 28 Dec
Be sure to put aside some pennies for what promises to be a fantastic night Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Books
Peanuts: from comic strip to bookshelf
Calvin and Hobbs gave its children-as-adults morality a modern edge, Bart Simpson became the post-modern Charlie Brown, while everything from Dilbert to South Park has co-opted Schulz's minimal, clean lines Read more »| 07 Dec 2007