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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BooksRhyme and Reasons: Poetry picks for Edinburgh Festival
Looking through the 2015 Festival line-up – including a Skinny sponsored Kate Tempest event – 2015 StAnza Poet in Residence Clare Mulley ponders that elusive theoretical point on the arts spectrum between 'poetry' and what is now known as 'spoken word' Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – August 2015
Rare opportunities arise to see Micachu, Sufjan Stevens and a revival of a concert piece by Arthur Russell performed by original members of the ensemble Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
ArtRESOURCE @ The Bluecoat
From tins of paint to a piracy library, The Bluecoat's current exhibition, RESOURCE, brings together a host of divergent practices offering audienc... Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Film
Killing Zoe
It’s easy to guess why audiences are turned off by Roger Avary. He won an Oscar co-scripting Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, but if his two dir... Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
BooksNorthwest Book Highlights – August 2015
As August brings the last of the summer’s festivals, this month’s literature picks focus on all things musical, plus David Mitchell makes an appearance in Liverpool Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Books
No Definition Required: Janice Galloway on Jellyfish
Prior to her appearance at Edinburgh International Book Festival, award-winning writer Janice Galloway talks to The Skinny about 'sex and love and parenthood'. All contained in Jellyfish, her dazzling new short story collection. Read more »| 30 Jul 2015
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Film
Scottish Film Event Highlights – August 2015
Film highlights include an indie star at GFT, Fringe regulars presenting their favourite movies at Cameo and a comedic takedown of one of the worst movies of all time Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Music
Edinburgh's Pleasance Sessions to return for October weekender
RM Hubbert, BDY_PRTS, PAWS and Withered Hand are among the names announced for the indoor autumn mini-festival's weekender.. Read more »| 29 Jul 2015 -
Music
Saturday at Wickerman 2015: Zyna Hel, Wells & Moffat, The Sonics
Despite taking place during the second Scottish winter in six months, Wickerman was spared the worst of the July weather on Friday. So when the rains arrive ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2015 -
Music
Heathered Pearls – Body Complex
You don’t have to listen to Jakub Alexander’s music for long before your mind begins to wander. It’s not that it’s boring. Rather, it... Read more »| 29 Jul 2015 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – August 2015
August is closely related to the word 'auger': a hole-digging tool used by farmers to dig earth for the coming season. Here is some other highly relevant information for the month ahead... Read more »| 29 Jul 2015 -
Music
Ultimate Painting – Green Lanes
You won’t need any prior knowledge of smart tunesmiths Jack Cooper (Mazes) and James Hoare (Veronica Falls) to recognise the blueprint for their c... Read more »| 29 Jul 2015 -
Film
Iris
As a modest portrait of an ostentatious fashion icon, Iris is an absolute delight. The final film by the equally legendary documentarian Albert Maysles (befo... Read more »| 29 Jul 2015 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – August 2015
You’ve a couple of al fresco cinema offerings this month with Secret Garden Cinema and Route 66 Drive-In. There’s also the opportunity to celebrate the unique acting talents of Nicolas Cage with CAGEFEST Read more »| 29 Jul 2015 -
Books
The Bride Stripped Bare by Rachel Kendall
In the second of the 23 short stories of Rachel Kendall’s debut collection, a group of horror enthusiasts who have met on the internet gather to watch ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2015