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.
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TechDishonored
Game trailers do strange things to the head, just like movie trailers, and sometimes the editor who makes three minutes of awesome can do more for game antic... Read more »| 30 Oct 2012 -
FashionHayley Scanlan: Selling Dreams
Scottish Young Designer of the Year, Hayley Scanlan will launch the first collection of her diffusion line HS on 3 November with an event at The McManus: Dun... Read more »| 23 Oct 2012 -
Fashion
Laura Spring: When The Wind Is High
This November at The Lighthouse, Glasgow, textile artist Laura Spring will show her first two collections as well as a series of site specific works in an ex... Read more »| 23 Oct 2012 -
TravelHit the Road, Jock: Studying Abroad
Studying overseas need not be daunting or off-putting, and to prove it we have two first-hand accounts of just what it's like to study abroad Read more »| 18 Oct 2012 -
StudentsCrystal Baws: Student Special
ARIESAs Venus enters your sign you tell your physics professor about the role planets play in our daily lives according to the Zodiac. Shaking his head he co... Read more »| 18 Oct 2012 -
Food And Drink
Chil Out: The Chili Cook-off 2012
They say charity begins at home, but we believe that charity begins while trailing around a string of bars and restaurants in a sombrero. Yes, it's time for a charity chili cook-off! Read more »| 10 Oct 2012
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Travel
The Perks of Being a Travel Editor: Australia
Our Travel Editor gets to swan off to the other side of the world. Once he's renewed his passport after a four year-lull, that is. "It's a 'press' trip, not a 'free' trip," he protests. Hmmm... here's the 'press' part! Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Food And Drink
Food News – October 2012
Art, cheap wine, apple-based tomfoolery and a new favourite pub all feature in October's food news. Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
TechYou Can't Get There From Here
The new phone, and the new Apple Read more »| 28 Sep 2012 -
Tech
Borderlands 2
In a crowded field of shooters where little differences can make all the difference, there are generally two camps on the original Borderlands: the first say... Read more »| 28 Sep 2012 -
Food And Drink
Phagomania: Back to Funky School
School dinners, school dinners, concrete chips, concrete chips, soggy semolina.... Okay nobody is going to sing 80s primary school Frere Jacques at these guy... Read more »| 26 Sep 2012 -
Fashion
Pout Edinburgh: An Event For The Girls
With Fashion Weeks all over the place in September, this year Edinburgh is joining the fashion party with its own take on the subject. Pout Edinburgh, a 3... Read more »| 19 Sep 2012 -
Students
The Skinny Student Handbook 2012: An Introduction
Hey, student! Sorry about the slightly abrupt welcome, but that wasn’t us shouting at you in a cheery, hyped-up style, it was actually a reference to a... Read more »| 18 Sep 2012 -
Students
A Student Guide to The Scottish Music Scene
Wind turbines, cholesterol, and incredible music: three things Scotland’s got in abundance. Here’s our guide to the latter – to the solo acts, bands, producers and so forth most liable to metaphorically blow your socks off this year Read more »| 18 Sep 2012 -
Students
Brew Ha-Ha: A student guide to homebrewing
Alcohol greases the wheels of student life, but it can be a bit on the pricey side. So why not make your own? We pulled out the buckets and clingfilm to find out just what it takes to brew your own booze. Read more »| 18 Sep 2012