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This month's film events column brings you three film festival you don't want to miss out on; Alchemy Film & Arts, Edinburgh Folk Film Festival, & the inaugural edition of Falastin Film Festival

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The book events column for May mentions Nadine Aisha Jassat at The Portobello Bookshop, Akira O'Connor + erin robbins at Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop, Darren McGarvey at Stereo, and tons more great literary events to see this month!

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Our monthly clubbing events column shares some highlights to start your summer right, including nights with KONTRAVOID, DJ Haram 🎀, and tons more talent across Edinburgh and Glasgow

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'The play sashays gracefully from the dance hall to the workplace to the boarding house, with costumes perfectly pitched'

Our ★★★★ review of THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS is now live - The play runs at The Lyceum until 4 May

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'Mitski evokes the kind of theatre where the chairs are all you can afford. Nearly everything else is movement and light.'

rho saw Mitski (@mitskileaks) at Usher Hall on Saturday - Read the ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review

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'Fearless Movement, is a self-produced odyssey, and, despite being almost 90 minutes long, manages to maintain an ardent accessibility'

FEARLESS MOVEMENT, the new album by Kamasi Washington (Kamasi Washington), is out Friady - Read our ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review

theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/… Young

'Even more impressive are the melodies that stand out above all of the intricacy, making for an album that’s not only fun, but acutely detailed'

On Friday, Home Counties release EXACTLY AS IT SEEMS - Read Jamie Wilde's ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review

theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/… Submarine Cat Records

Thanks so much to Tallah Brash & The Skinny for including 🌍's headline Rise Up set in their May Live Highlights 🙏

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Unbelievably giddy to say that my cat Fitz* and I sat down to speak with formidable CHVRCHES frontwoman Lauren Mayberry for the DIY issue of The Skinny which hits shops tomorrow🗞️

*Only one of us knocked over a glass of water during the interview. I was nervous, okay...

Olivia Laing’s newest is out on Thursday 🪴 A desire path out of the weeds via her trademark mix of genres

Festivals such as @WIDEDAYS, We Are Here Scotland's Rise Up, and Edinburgh Tradfest and are just some of our live music highlights for May - Don't miss out on one-off gigs by Megan Black, sevendeaths, 𝐻𝑂𝑁𝐸𝑌𝐵𝐿𝑂𝑂𝐷 and more!

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'When you put on a club night, you become a leader. You have responsibility and power.'

Dill of PONYBOY (Dill) and Lewis G Burton (@lewisgburton) of INFERNO are in conversation, ahead of the crossover events of the two queer club nights

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May’s comedy highlights throw up some big US stars (Eric Andre), tours from some Fringe aces (@michellebrasier), and new material from familiar faces (@TamsynKelly) - Read more below!

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'Akin to the labour-intensive realities of yardwork: pockets of refuge and nurture break up necessary toil'

Olivia Laing's memoir / history / literary criticism THE GARDEN AGAINST TIME gets ★★★★ from Louis Cammell

theskinny.co.uk/books/book-rev… Picador Books

'Behind that fluted glass, the kitchen are doing some exciting and unexpected things'

This month's food column is out - Peter Simpson takes on The Bearded Baker 's new brunch place SEVENTY ONE STEPS 🥯

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Kelburn Garden Party is coming 🍄

Playing The Pyramid Stage - Sunday - curated by The Skinny ✨

Grab some wet wipes and grab a ticket 🎟️
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'Artists like RACHEL CHINOURIRI dare to hold up the flag of the radio guitar pop sound which dominated at least one of the W. Bush terms'

★★★★ for WHAT A DEVASTATING TURN OF EVENTS, by rachel - Out this Friday

theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/… ATLAS ARTISTS Parlophone Records

' #LoveLiesBleeding is Thelma & Louise by the way of Drive – a neon-tinted tale of lovers and lawbreakers that’s equal parts American Dream, erotic fantasy and drug-induced nightmare...'

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'The GFT is all things to all people: it’s a place of learning, it’s a place of community, it’s a place of worship.'

It was a joy to share how much the cinema means to all of us for this article marking GFT's 50th anniversary this May by Jamie Dunn 🇪🇺 for The Skinny