It's always a bonus if you find yourself sitting down in a pub or a coffee shop and see copies of The Skinny lying about. Compared to the double glazing ads and out of date non-news you get in most free papers, it's journalistic heaven.\n\nCompared to papers you'd actually pay for it's not that bad either, It's a bit up it's own arse at times, but if you're interested in what's going on slightly left of centre in the music, film, media and art scenes across Scotland, then it's probably the best publication currently available, free or not.\n\nGranted, some of the content an writing will appeal only to the most insufferable arseholes who bore you senseless by wittering on about the latest no-mark band they've found on Myspace, but even taking that into account there's plenty of reading to be had here.