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Food And DrinkNishiki, Edinburgh
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day – at Japanese izakaya Nishiki, it's all about exciting flavour combos and riffs on well-loved classics Read more »| 29 Sep 2025 -
IntersectionsBlack History Month Scotland 2025: Resistance & Resilience
We take a closer look at this year’s Black History Month Scotland, a vibrant programme of events which centres acts of solidarity – both historical and contemporary Read more »| 29 Sep 2025 -
StudentsHome Cooking: Making friends through food
Between lectures, parties, coursework and work-work, you’ve got a lot going on. We look at how cooking together with your flatmates can help build community and fuel your fun Read more »| 18 Sep 2025 -
IntersectionsDrawn to Map: On Feeling Our Way Through Space
One writer reflects on a love of maps – both physical and digital – and considers how local intimacies can transform the places we know and love Read more »| 18 Sep 2025 -
StudentsFresh(ers) Hell: Our uni horror stories
The Skinny team has dug around in their memories to find and share some freshers and flatmate/halls horror stories from their uni days. Some memories are traumatising, some funny (in retrospect), all vivid and enduring Read more »| 17 Sep 2025 -
IntersectionsMan Down, Level Up: Sex, socialising, and the male gaze
It’s all too easy to get stuck in the male gaze and let it drive your nights out: one writer tells how their uni experiences – and some Wet Leg lyrics – helped them change perspective Read more »| 16 Sep 2025
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IntersectionsLove Bites: Placing & Replacing
This month’s Love Bites columnist reflects on loving a place you once couldn’t wait to leave Read more »| 16 Sep 2025 -
StudentsSolidarity Steps: A guide to student activism
Keen to get involved in activism? Your student years are the perfect time to start. Here’s a rundown of our top tips, as well as a handful of organisations to keep on your radar Read more »| 11 Sep 2025 -
StudentsGet With The Programme: Putting on your first DIY gig
Your local music scene is powered by great grassroots promoters – we chat to three of them to get some insight into how a great gig comes together Read more »| 11 Sep 2025 -
IntersectionsAsk Anahit: Student Edition
In this advice column special, our resident agony aunt answers all your burning questions about how to be a student Read more »| 11 Sep 2025 -
StudentsStudent Heads Up: 20 events to check out this year
We get it, you want to keep your calendar clear for ‘work’ and ‘studying’ and ‘the sesh’, but there is a lot going on around here. Consider these the tentpoles around which to build your year… Read more »| 09 Sep 2025 -
StudentsCreative Commons: Getting involved in Scotland's creative scene
We speak to some of Scotland’s creatives about the importance of finding community, and how to get yourself involved Read more »| 09 Sep 2025 -
IntersectionsCrowning Glory: Scotland’s drag kings on the rise
Time to suit up. We speak to Scotland’s leading drag kings about exploring masculinity, looking out for one another, and creating a name for themselves in today’s drag scene Read more »| 04 Sep 2025 -
Food And DrinkSear's Pizza, Edinburgh / Anxious Pete's, Glasgow
A tale of two pizza shops, as we visit new by-the-slice spaces at both ends of the M8 – Sear's new spot in Marchmont, Edinburgh, and Anxious Pete's at the Barras in Glasgow Read more »| 01 Sep 2025 -
IntersectionsLove Bites: Dinner With Strangers
This month’s columnist reflects on sharing a meal with future friends Read more »| 12 Aug 2025