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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FashionLove Your Trainers? Laces Out comes to Liverpool
Whether you’re loyal to Air Max or worship at the altar of the Yeezy Boost, trainers have become status symbols, markers of signature styles, emblems of wider cultural trends – and are truly having a moment. Now there's even a trainer festival: Laces Out! Read more »| 02 Mar 2016 -
Fashion
Edinburgh Fashion Week 2016: Style Capital
As Edinburgh Fashion Week returns, with the Edinburgh Charity Fashion Show in tow, we consider the event's individual flair and take a look at what's in store. Read more »| 02 Mar 2016 -
StudentsMotoring on a budget: tips for the student driver
Are you a student driver wondering how to cut the costs of running a car? From how to get cheap car insurance, to finding discount auto parts, to which car t... Read more »| 01 Mar 2016 -
Food And Drink
Scottish Food News – March 2016
Performance, philosophy and festivals a-plenty all feature in this month's food events round-up. Read more »| 01 Mar 2016 -
TechIn Search of The Uncanny Valley
We investigate one of the great challenges facing technological representations of the human form. Read more »| 01 Mar 2016 -
Travel
Dream travels: Treehouses and private islands
To celebrate Airbnb’s seventh birthday, one host shares how renting rooms is helping shape individual dreams of travel, from Montenegro to the islands of the Indian Ocean Read more »| 26 Feb 2016
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TravelLiving in New York: An expat's guide
So, you want to live in New York? An ex-pat’s guide to finding your feet in the Big Apple. Read more »| 23 Feb 2016 -
Food And Drink
New in Food: Brew Lab, Tapa, Lowdown & more
In our latest round-up of new venues in Edinburgh and Glasgow, there are cafés-a-plenty, and even the occasional nod to healthy eating Read more »| 22 Feb 2016 -
TechThis War of Mine: The Little Ones
Updated for consoles with new content exploring the plight of children in warzones, This War of Mine: The Little Ones delves even deeper into the traumatising realities of warfare today. Read more »| 19 Feb 2016 -
Tech
Not A Hero
Not A Hero is one of the craziest, weirdest and most wonderful titles that this gamer has had the pleasure of playing. Imagine a cross between Hotline Miami ... Read more »| 19 Feb 2016 -
Intersections
Opinion: Don't feed the trolls, challenge them
The tired metaphor of the hungry troll has excused abhorrent online abuse for too long. It's time to stop starving trolls and start questioning humans. Read more »| 17 Feb 2016 -
Food And Drink
A Guide To Coffee at Home by Heart & Graft
The team behind Manchester coffee roastery Heart & Graft give us their tips on making barista-quality coffee at home Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
Food And Drink
Heart and Graft Coffee: Giving It Beans
In the first of our new 'Pioneers' series – championing the doers, thinkers and makers behind the Northwest's food and drink scene – we meet James Guard and Sean Fowler, the roasting duo behind Heart and Graft. Read more »| 16 Feb 2016 -
Fashion
Rosie Sugden: Cashmere Queen
Rosie Sugden's designs can now be found far beyond their Edinburgh origins – we find out more about a designer with a sharp eye for minutiae. Read more »| 15 Feb 2016 -
Fashion
Valentine's gift ideas in Manchester and Liverpool
Keep it local this Valentine's Day by doing your last-minute gift shopping in Manchester or Liverpool's many boutiques. From handmade jewellery to screenprin... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016