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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BooksSarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Sarong Party Girls is a delectably vulgar look at the racism, sexism and classism in the upper echelons of Singaporean society Read more »| 01 Aug 2019 -
FilmWatch the first trailer for Martin Scorsese's The Irishman
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci all appear in the first trailer for Martin Scorsese's gangster film The Irishman, which looks epic Read more »| 31 Jul 2019 -
MusicKohla – T O U C H (Video Premiere)
Watch the video for T O U C H by Kohla, shot in Glasgow's Sub Club Read more »| 31 Jul 2019 -
BooksScottish Poetry News: August 2019
A guide to the poetry publications, events and happenings on the way in August Read more »| 31 Jul 2019 -
BooksRoseanne Watt: On Moder Dy
In 2018, Roseanne Watt won the prestigious Edwin Morgan Poetry Award celebrating the country’s best young poets. She talks to The Skinny about her beautiful prize-winning debut Moder Dy Read more »| 31 Jul 2019 -
ArtArt Events and Opportunities: August 2019
It’s August, and the country is past saturation point with culture and tourists – here's our pick of the art to take in across Scotland this month Read more »| 31 Jul 2019
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BooksLot by Bryan Washington
Bryan Washington explores the intersections and tumult of those in the margins in fantastic short story collection Lot Read more »| 31 Jul 2019 -
FilmRobert Pattinson fights an octopus in the first trailer from The Lighthouse
The Witch director Robert Eggers returns with The Lighthouse, a wild-looking two-hander starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson Read more »| 30 Jul 2019 -
FilmAnimals
Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat play hedonistic party-girls in this prosaic, muddled dramedy from Sophie Hyde Read more »| 30 Jul 2019 -
BooksBeth Cochrane and Laura Waddell's Books takeover on EH-FM
Listen back to Beth Cochrane and Laura Waddell's Books takeover on The Skinny's weekly EH-FM slot Read more »| 30 Jul 2019 -
FilmSophie Hyde on hard-drinking flatmates drama Animals
Sophie Hyde, the Australian filmmaker behind 52 Tuesdays, returns with Emma Jane Unsworth adaptation Animals, a tender study of female friendship starring Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat. Hyde sits down with us to talk adaptation, poetry and Dublin Read more »| 30 Jul 2019 -
BooksIdiot Wind by Peter Kaldheim
Peter Kaldheim's honesty and optimistic persistence in every circumstance make for a powerful and compelling narrative Read more »| 30 Jul 2019 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: August 2019
Take full advantage of the Fringe's late licensing and party right through til 5am in Edinburgh, while there's also plenty of fun to be had across the M8 Read more »| 29 Jul 2019 -
MusicA New Life: Pianodrome at The Pitt
The Skinny catches up with the producer of Pianodrome at The Pitt, Matt Wright, about how the venue offers a contrast to modern-day Fringe chaos Read more »| 29 Jul 2019 -
BooksSofie Hagen on her new book Happy Fat
Sofie Hagen brings her new book Happy Fat to the Edinburgh Book Festival – we talk audience responses, changing perceptions, and being Danish in Brexit Britain Read more »| 29 Jul 2019