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Welcome to freedom week. You can now drink alcohol indoors past sundown. You can now have a wee boogie on the dancefloor. You can now go to a gig without the... Read more »

Head east this weekend! Because one of our favourite city music festivals, The Great Eastern, returns with a shimmering lineup of artists to help kick o... Read more »

Record Store Day Record Store Day, the UK’s annual celebration of indie record shops, returns on Saturday (12 Apr). An outrageous list of ne... Read more »

Is there a busier filmmaker in the UK than Mark Cousins? He made four feature films in 2021 alone and is currently touring film festivals with his latest, Th... Read more »

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival  The long-running and essential Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival is back with a huge lineup delving ... Read more »

This weekend sees the mixed-media exhibition Deluge (3-5 Nov) come to sett studio on Leith Walk, Edinburgh with the aim of spreading awareness and ... Read more »

Glaswegian comedy fans, get set to hammer your bank account this March. The Glasgow International Comedy Festival returns for its 21st birthday edition with ... Read more »

We at The Skinny love Filmhouse’s House Guest initiative, the ongoing season where the Edinburgh cinema invite some of the most interesting artists wor... Read more »

From some of the cream of the Cannes crop to restored classics and mainstream hits, the French Film Festival is a much-appreciated annual event for the UK&rs... Read more »

Ad Astra Dir. James Gray | Release TBC After taking characters to the New World (The Immigrant) and deep into the Amazon rainforest (The Lost City of Z), J... Read more »

The School of Design offers perspectives on common themes across various disciplines – 2024's graduating students produce designs with a considered com... Read more »

Books Mount Florida BooksI love Mount Florida Books. Great books, great vibes, and did you know they reinvest their profits into Glasgow’s literary an... Read more »

We – Tallah Brash (Music Editor) and Nadia Younes (Clubs Editor) – were back on the radio today (1 Apr) for our third show on Edinburgh community... Read more »

The curtain has come down on another edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and we're delighted to once again bring you work from the writers ... Read more »

The Breadwinner Dir. Nora Twomey The Breadwinner is an ode to storytelling, revelling in the boundless freedom of animation to create a kaleidoscope of t... Read more »

Not Your Usual is a new series of podcasts from The Skinny – each episode, we'll be having an extended chat with a Scottish creative who's doing things... Read more »

The Cineskinny is the film podcast from some of the team behind The Skinny – every fortnight we take some kind of look at the wide world of The Movies.... Read more »

1. Aftersun Dir. Charlotte Wells There is a sense throughout Aftersun of reaching and reaching, of brushing something vital with your fingertips only to ha... Read more »

25. Loveless Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev’s haunting drama centres on a missing child, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), who vanishes during ... Read more »

Anger, solidarity and resistance runs through Sonic Séance: The Gathering (until 28 July). With a varied programme of dance, performance, video and wo... Read more »

A STYLE Icon can be a person, place, district, building, home… We asked some of The Skinny’s team to share their local style inspirations, and y... Read more »

20. Sound of Metal (Darius Marder) "Director Darius Marder has crafted a profound story about deafness, intimately exploring the nuances of hearing loss a... Read more »

1. Severance Among the offerings exclusive to Apple’s streaming platform this year, Dan Erickson’s Severance surely sits atop the pile. An intri... Read more »

Our Peripheral Visions season of free events at our new home in Codebase offer a chance to interact, explore and engage with the arts as the Edinburgh Festiv... Read more »

10. Unbelievable In the seemingly oversaturated category of ‘true crime’ media, Netflix have managed to create a timely miniseries that admira... Read more »

10. Love Lies Bleeding Dir. Rose Glass Love Lies Bleeding, Rose Glass’s sophomore feature, is a sapphic grindhouse version of Pumping Iro... Read more »

Phantom Thread Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson There are blatant shades of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, but the mo... Read more »

We at The Skinny love Filmhouse’s House Guest initiative, the ongoing season where the Edinburgh cinema invite some of the most interesting artists wor... Read more »

Being a fresher is just a million feelings, experiences, and moments of hell baked into nine speedy months. It’s usually the first time people are livi... Read more »

1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed  Dir. Laura Poitras This year – both cinematically and politically – has been characterised by cr... Read more »