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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StudentsDance to Your Own Beat: Becoming a Promoter
Our music editor talks us through her experience of running gigs and clubs, and a host of key players on the Edinburgh, Glasgow and Liverpool music scenes share their words of wisdom Read more »| 01 Sep 2017 -
Food And DrinkScottish Food News – September 2017
A bumper month in Scottish food and drink features boozy festivals a-plenty Read more »| 01 Sep 2017 -
StudentsBig Deals: Scotland's Food Deals & Offers
Because in the world of food and drink, your student card can only get you so far… Read more »| 31 Aug 2017 -
StudentsPEANESS' Favourite Gig Venues in the North
With so many venues for you to check out in your new home, we thought we'd ask our pals from indie-pop trio PEANESS to give you a heads up on what's good Read more »| 31 Aug 2017 -
Students
Hit the North: A guide to student day trips
Time to get up off your arse and out of the flat: there's a whole world out there, even for you students Read more »| 30 Aug 2017 -
Students
Art Graduates: Where Are They Now?
We speak to four recent art graduates to find out what they've been up to since finishing at uni, and what they have planned for the future Read more »| 30 Aug 2017
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Students
7 great short films to inspire budding directors
Some simple but stunning short films made by directors who'd go on to be famous, to give you inspiration as you embark on a career in film. Or maybe you’re just after something fun to watch while hungover. Either way, these shorts are for you Read more »| 30 Aug 2017 -
Students
A Guide to Scotland's Record Shops
Go on the perfect record shopping spree in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee with our guide Read more »| 30 Aug 2017 -
Students
Be Charlotte's Favourite Gig Venues
Be Charlotte picks out her favourite live music venues across Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh Read more »| 30 Aug 2017 -
Food And Drink
The Skinny's Desert Island Crisps
Forget Desert Island Discs... this is the real Sophie's Choice. The Skinny team break down their favourite potato snacks in forensic detail; prepare for a pan-European and slightly sweary voyage into the crisp aisle Read more »| 24 Aug 2017 -
Intersections
Two Women Talk: On Female Body Tropes
As part of our brand new series of radical conversations about the female body, Deviance rallied theatrical anarchists Liz Aggiss and Louise Orwin to chat feminism, firearms and the reaction to their Fringe shows... Read more »| 21 Aug 2017 -
Tech
The Criminal podcast & 5 more great crime podcasts
Our new monthly Pod People column, casting a closer eye over our favourite series, kicks off with Phoebe Judge's Criminal Read more »| 18 Aug 2017 -
Food And Drink
The Dram Team: Auchentoshan & Ale in Glasgow
We take a look at Auchentoshan's unique Auchentoshan and Ale serve, through the eyes of some of the best bars in the whisky's home city of Glasgow Read more »| 11 Aug 2017 -
Food And Drink
New in Food: Harmonium, Bross Bagels & more
As Edinburgh rides the wave of festival fever, we pick out some of the brand-new spots to check out in the capital, from amazing vegan scran to authentic bagels Read more »| 10 Aug 2017 -
Travel
Living in Beijing: An Expat Guide
Fed up with disappointing elections in the West? Consider a move to the capital of the People’s Republic of China, where trivial matters like democracy won’t get in the way of you ganbei-ing your baijiu with newfound friends Read more »| 09 Aug 2017