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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Students
Student Life: Recipes to Impress
Make friends the easy way: feed them up and get them merry. The Skinny takes you through some easy food and cocktail recipes that will score you brownie points in any student digs. Read more »| 11 Sep 2008 -
Students
Student Life: Spend your student loan or get fit
The Skinny takes no responsibility for course failures, or for paving the way to the bottom of that oh-so-generous interest free overdraft, but here's a few secrets to getting fit thumbs. Phwoar! Read more »| 11 Sep 2008 -
Students
Student Life: Wakey, wakey! - The Best Breakfasts in Scotland
Mornings. Likelihood is that you will be sleeping through most of your morning lectures, but if you manage to be up early (or late) enough to justify brekkie you will need fuel. Recommended coffee and carb stops below... Read more »| 11 Sep 2008 -
Students
Student Life: When comics become movies
Books, books, books. Your life is about to become a written work pulped overload. Therefore get back to basics with nice pictures of everyday avengers beating the shit out of each other. Read more »| 10 Sep 2008 -
Tech
Wii Loop Machine
Insanely popular music simulation games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band may make you feel like you're some kind of musical master, but they are just that, ... Read more »| 10 Sep 2008 -
Students
Student Life: 5 Ways to Sound like a Genius at a Party...
...When you're actually an idiot like the rest of us.Everyone knows a bullshitter, but what's the secret? The Skinny asked five seasoned experts to share the... Read more »| 10 Sep 2008
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Students
Student Life: Learn baby learn
Some people at uni have brains so big, and are so incredibly brilliant at their subject, that they're shit at everything else. They can't even make a bowl of cornflakes. Others have no brain, never do any work, but have such an easy-going manner that they're bound to be successful. Okay, they have brains too. Whoever you are, though, there are certain steps you can take to get the most from your learning experience at uni... Read more »| 10 Sep 2008 -
Tech
NASCAR 09
Strictly for the fans Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
Students
Student Life: Style 101
Greetings, assembled student masses. Since this Student Handbook as a whole is built to ease your transition into campus life, here in fashion corner, we&rs... Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
Fashion
Man From Marrz
If you've pored over these pages, no doubt you'll have noticed rising sensation Paul Marr’s fashion shoots prettying up recent issues of the Skinny. The Edinburgh-based photographer's ethereal, cinematic style promises to make him one of Scotland's most in-demand fashion photographers, and The Skinny managed to pin him down to talk past, present, and future - but no photos, please. Think Banksy - the glasses are as much as you get. Read more »| 29 Aug 2008 -
Food And Drink
Bake To The Future
Cake and guilt traditionally go hand-in-hand, but two pioneering Edinburgh cafes are making a move towards sweet treats that’ll keep your conscience smelling of roses. Read more »| 29 Aug 2008 -
Food And Drink
Gramofon Review
Kick off your shoes and settle down for a treat at Gramofon Bistro. The new owners of this Merchant City delight have been toiling passionately for 8 months ... Read more »| 28 Aug 2008 -
Fashion
Glasgow Style's Better
Ask any Glaswegian worth their salt of the earth, and they'll tell you that there's always been something a bit special about Scotland's biggest city. And thanks to the international success of West-coast wonders Jonathan Saunders and Christopher Kane, what the locals always knew is finally catching on, with all influential eyes now fixed on Scottish fashion. This month, the Glasgow: Scotland with Style Design Collective, of which Kane is a graduate, will take its fourth batch of Glaswegian born, based, or trained designers to the tents at London Fashion Week. In the interests of getting 'aw the gen, The Skinny caught up with some of this seasons' big names at The Lighthouse, Scotland's National Centre for Architecture & Design, and found out what the well-deserved fuss is about. Read more »| 28 Aug 2008 -
Tech
Pool Party
After a degree of success with a similar but smaller game based around billiards in the WiiPlay package, the idea of a dedicated Pool game was not necessaril... Read more »| 26 Aug 2008 -
Fashion
Skinny Jeans - Dressed to Kilt
As local heroes go, there can be few candidates with a history as motley and contentious as good auld tartan. Read more »| 24 Aug 2008