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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Clubs
Six Of The Best
6 OF THE BESTEDINBURGHECCF Charity Ball @ The Caves, Nov 4, £10Dress to impress for this Halloween-themed party as DJs from 13 of Edinburgh's house nights... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Clubs
Go - The Very Best of Moby
Buy this only if you are interested in the tracks from 'Play' which have made Moby a household name. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
My Morning Jacket - Okonokos (GOOD TO GO)
I got the name in a dream Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
The Search for Robert Johnson
Hammond's versions of Johnson's originals smack of egotism as much as reverence Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
a joy in the possibilities of word, syntax and imagery Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
CSA- The Confederate States of America
no intention to do anything but wink at a black US audience Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Film
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre (Tartan Video)
Will attract and appall viewers in equal measure. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy!
An underworld of crime, desperation and hard luck. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Defiance @ Ohio
it's a bunch of real people Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Disturbed - Land Of Confusion
Please, quick, someone turn it off, or hand over some gaffer tape and a nail gun. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Theatre
Martha @ Tramway
Move's Martha is self-contained, confident and wry - the intimate detail lost in Tramway's post-industrial space. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Vincent Vincent and the Villians - Johnny Two Bands
Quirky, wholesome fun Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Slam Dunk - The Big Word
In relief to this entertainment machine of processed meets, The Big Word is back to throw a spanner in the works Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Scottish Writers Conquer the Universe!
a product of the scientific, engineering tradition on the one hand and the mystic Celtic background on the other, generating SF with a lyrical strand and fantasy with particularly strong backgrounds Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
subjects such as the breakdown of family relations and the stifling atmosphere of eighteenth century London are described without qualms or precedent Read more »| 12 Nov 2006