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.
-
Food And DrinkLevel 11 Coffee Hub, Glasgow
We step into the concrete dojo that is the West End's newest speciality coffee spot Read more »| 05 Dec 2023 -
IntersectionsConnections in the Cold: Polyamory & community in Winter
It's getting pretty cold and 'cuffing season' is here – but monogamy isn't the only relationship structure that can bring us warmth. We speak to some folk about their experiences of polyamory and the intimacy it can offer, in winter and beyond Read more »| 05 Dec 2023 -
IntersectionsAsk Anahit: Baby It's Cold Inside
As winter fully settles in, this month's advice column looks at how you can have sex when it's too cold to take your clothes off Read more »| 05 Dec 2023 -
IntersectionsBearing Witness: The value of online activism - now and always
Amid ongoing atrocities, digital engagement is far from futile – rather, it is key in demanding change. One writer reflects on building online solidarity and holding truth in urgent times Read more »| 28 Nov 2023 -
TravelChristmas for Kids
There are lots of ways to make this festive season magical for the small people in your life. Scotland is dotted with light shows, funfairs, literal winter wonderlands and an almost inconceivable number of opportunities to meet Santa Claus Read more »| 27 Nov 2023 -
IntersectionsReimagining Art School with The Otolith Group
There's more than one way to learn. Cooper Gallery’s third iteration of The Ignorant Art School series welcomes The Otolith Group with an exhibition of moving image works and a series of workshops-as-provocations Read more »| 17 Nov 2023
-
IntersectionsLove Bites: A Letterboxd Lens
This month's columnist celebrates imperfect love, films about hobbies, and online obsessions Read more »| 13 Nov 2023 -
IntersectionsSaving Words: On the Importance of Libraries
Cuts, cuts, and more cuts – our libraries are under attack. One writer reflects on a lifelong love for her local library and the need to keep the doors open, especially in these difficult times Read more »| 10 Nov 2023 -
Food And DrinkGlasgow venues round-up: November 2023
From award-winning kebab shops to art-inspired pubs and familiar pizza places – we take a look at some of the latest openings in Glasgow Read more »| 10 Nov 2023 -
IntersectionsAsk Rho: The State of the Arts
This month's columnist ponders whether it's worth it to keep your dream job if it's terrible (no) Read more »| 09 Nov 2023 -
Food And DrinkMIJU, Edinburgh
A new Japanese restaurant arrives on the block with all the classics you could want, and enough artwork and paraphernalia to start a small museum Read more »| 08 Nov 2023 -
IntersectionsTaking Up Space with Paff Evara
Highlighting blind spots within current mass media supply chains, Take Up Space proposes an alternative, community-driven, model that is intersectional, and equitable for all – “a media that you can see yourself in” Read more »| 08 Nov 2023 -
Food And Drink19 Crimes release world-first 'coffin-aged' wine
19 Crimes are getting ready for spooky season with a short horror film, the world's first coffin-aged wine, and new glow-in-the-dark bottles Read more »| 24 Oct 2023 -
IntersectionsLove Bites: Bedroom Pop Moments
This month's columnist reflects on Astra King's debut EP, nostalgia, and first loves in the digital age Read more »| 17 Oct 2023 -
IntersectionsAnother Way: Unpacking transformative justice
The justice system isn't always all that just. Prisons and dodgy public spending, policing and state violence – but what if there was another way? We have a closer look at transformative justice and explore its potential in Scotland's future Read more »| 11 Oct 2023