Lifestyle
Your one-stop shop for everything lifestyle at The Skinny. Join us for food and drink reads and reviews, fashion and style, sexuality and opinion pieces, tech news and features, student guides and travel guides and features.
-
TechSacred 3
Simplification in the name of accessibility has become a perceptible trend in the games industry in the wake of the spiralling development costs that the HD ... Read more »| 12 Aug 2014 -
Food And Drink
Albion, Crosby
Ye Olde English grub from Steven Burgess Read more »| 11 Aug 2014 -
IntersectionsBreast Censorship
We chat to Daria D’Beauvoix talks about her recent breach of Facebook’s ‘nudity’ rules and what this social media policing of women’s bodies really means Read more »| 11 Aug 2014 -
Fashion
Scottish Fashion Awards: Celebrating Scottish Fashion
Now a firm fixture on the fashion calendar, The Scottish Fashion Awards return in September to celebrate the nation's style, design and fabrication industries Read more »| 08 Aug 2014 -
TechWhispering Willows
Nightlight Interactive describe Whispering Willows as a “horror” game, which may be misleading. It’s horror like the Haunted Mansion at Dis... Read more »| 07 Aug 2014 -
TechThe Last of Us: Remastered
For many, the release of The Last of Us on PlayStation 3 was hailed as a pivotal moment in videogame history. Naughty Dog's post-apocalyptic zombie filled ep... Read more »| 07 Aug 2014
-
Travel
The Seizure
A holiday from health – the piecing together of memory, how recollection and re-telling might be compromised, and the implications this has for our version of a journey… Read more »| 07 Aug 2014 -
Food And Drink
Back to the Land: Skills to Help You Go Green
All this talk of reading and writing – what if you want to learn skills that involve getting your hands dirty? We check out some local opportunities to develop knowledge that allows us to become more self-sufficient, from foraging to brewing Read more »| 07 Aug 2014 -
Tech
Dundee's Game creation competition Dare To Be Digital returns
Can you make a working, innovative videogame prototype in just eight weeks? Dare to be Digital asks just that ahead of August’s annual Dare ProtoPlay indie games festival. We spoke to some of its competitors, past and present, about the experience Read more »| 05 Aug 2014 -
Intersections
Shamelessly Safe
Fighting the stigma of being prepared – Matthew Bobbu Read more »| 05 Aug 2014 -
Food And Drink
Phagomania: The Burger At The Gates Of Dawn
Summer psychedelia hits Phagomania hard as we trip out to Brittney Meyer’s photographic oddities and wonder whether they might be too much for even this column Read more »| 05 Aug 2014 -
Food And Drink
Rising Stars: Craft Beer Rising Hits Glasgow
The Craft Beer Rising festival makes its Scottish debut next month – we look ahead to a weekend of beer, beats and live brewing Read more »| 05 Aug 2014 -
Food And Drink
August Food News: Best of the Rest
If you can't stomach the Fringe, Scotland still has plenty to offer this month, namely beer, yachts, smoke and silence Read more »| 05 Aug 2014 -
Tech
Reinventing the Patron
Crowdfunding is bringing the arts back towards a patronage model. Sculptor Carrie Fertig and IndieGoGo pro Anastasia Emmanuel discuss how the internet can give an idea wings Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
Fashion
In Pursuit of Beauty
Fashion is represented on the Edinburgh festival stage with In Pursuit of Beauty, a showcase and discussion aiming to debate the representation of diversity in the fashion industry Read more »| 01 Aug 2014