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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StudentsStudent Venues: Getting Active
Our pick of the places to get and stay active, with trampolines, boulders, and a skate park we (sort of) helped to build Read more »| 11 Sep 2018 -
StudentsStudent Venues: Shops
Whether you need paintbrushes, pristine second-hand records or powerful literature, here are the places to stock up Read more »| 10 Sep 2018 -
Students
Student Venues: Veggie Comfort Food
The places across Scotland to grab some veggie comfort food Read more »| 10 Sep 2018 -
StudentsStudent Venues: Super Cheap Eats
Scotland's student cities are hotbeds for incredible food at absurdly low prices; here are some of our favourites Read more »| 10 Sep 2018 -
StudentsStudent Handbook: Living and Working Abroad
Eventually, your student days will come to an end – so why not go somewhere far away? From our Living Abroad guides to life in some of the world's greatest cities, the things you need to know before making the jump Read more »| 10 Sep 2018 -
Intersections
Introducing our new column on love
Love is a complex thing, so we're going to explore it in this new column. Our Intersections editor has the details Read more »| 06 Sep 2018
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IntersectionsHow Skater Girls are Tackling Sexism in the Sport
One skater girl recalls her experience of getting back on a board and learns how women are taking a stand against sexism in the skatepark Read more »| 06 Sep 2018 -
Food And Drink
Scottish Food & Drink News – September 2018
Autumn kicks off with a host of beery parties and the chance to get stuck into some tasty samosas... Read more »| 04 Sep 2018 -
Intersections
Queering the Map on capturing LGBTQ+ history
We speak to Queering the Map, the digital, crowd-sourced mapping project memorialising queer existence and history across the world Read more »| 03 Sep 2018 -
Food And Drink
Vote in The Skinny Food and Drink Survey
Our annual readers' poll to find the country's best food and drink returns – it's time to reintroduce The Skinny Food and Drink Survey, and argue about what a restaurant is Read more »| 03 Sep 2018 -
Food And Drink
New In Food: El Cartel, Sonder & more
A second chance to grab the capital's best tacos, great new coffee and cocktails, and exciting fish-based cookery all feature in our latest venue round-up Read more »| 31 Aug 2018 -
Travel
The realities of travelling as a black woman
One writer explores what it means to travel as a black woman and why despite its difficulties, she always encourages people of colour to go Read more »| 03 Aug 2018 -
Intersections
Why the toxic myth of the male genius must die
The notion of the male genius sits at the heart of our artistic and cultural life – here's why it's time to rip it up and start again Read more »| 01 Aug 2018 -
Food And Drink
Scottish Food & Drink News – August 2018
Festival fun takes hold in Glasgow as well as Edinburgh this August – get ready for a month of charity beer fests, cocktail weekenders and celebrations of all things vegan Read more »| 01 Aug 2018 -
Intersections
The NHS at 70, by the immigrants who make it
Free, universal healthcare is a privilege most of us take for granted in this country. We talk to healthcare professionals who have chosen to work in the UK about what the NHS means to them on its 70th birthday Read more »| 30 Jul 2018