By: Steve Dinneen

Life&Style Editor I'm the editor of City A.M. The Magazine, and editor of the daily newspaper's Life&Style section. We cover food, going out, art, technology and travel.

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Jay-Z tour review and special guests: He’s still got it

Life&Style

Jay-Z delivers a joyous Tottenham show packed with classics, spectacle and nostalgia, while stadium hospitality adds polish; read the review.
Electra/Persona at the National Theatre review: A dull mash-up of Sophocles and Bergman

Life&Style

Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss lead a visually striking but plodding Sophocles-Bergman mash-up at the National Theatre; read the review.
Barts North Wing would be a worthy Toast Award winner

Toast the City

Barts North Wing houses the restored Hogarth Stair and Great Hall, a free City landmark up for Toast the City Awards. The public voting for the Toast the City Awards is over but the judges have yet to cast their votes for their favourite bars, restaurants, hotels, coffee shops, cultural venues and more. As the [...]

Golf, events and bags of nostalgia at Newport’s Celtic Manor

August 26, 2026

There’s something very nostalgic about Celtic Manor. Located a few minutes down the M4 from Newport town centre, it manages to feel entirely remote, an imposing stone building nestled within some 2,000 acres of grounds. Opened in 1982 by Welsh tech tycoon Sir Terry Matthews, once the richest man in the country, Celtic Manor brings [...]
Russian propaganda website hit with record ‘pink slime’ payout at High Court

August 6, 2026

An Uzbek businessman has been awarded £105,000 in damages and £117,663.38 in legal costs after winning a defamation suit against a UK publishing network – the largest publicly reported payout in a so-called ‘pink slime’ case. A City AM investigation into British publisher 2Trom was presented as evidence in the High Court case after we [...]
Cleansed is still the most harrowing play you’ll ever see

August 3, 2026

Cleansed | Almeida | ★★★★☆ There’s a hint at what you’re in for with Cleansed when the Almeida staff tape over everyone’s phone on the way in to prevent any photography; there is a lot of nudity in this play, and none of it is the good kind. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Sarah [...]
Trainspotting the Musical: A bad, bad trip down memory lane

July 23, 2026

Trainspotting the Musical | Theatre Royal Haymarket | ★☆☆☆☆ I was 13 when Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting adaptation was released – I’d never seen anything like it and it became a seminal text of my teenage years. Two decades later, I luxuriated in the condensed hit of nostalgia of the 2017 sequel. I’ve read the books: [...]
Jeff Goldblum plays the cinematic hits at joyful Royal Albert Hall show

July 22, 2026

Jeff Goldblum at the Royal Albert Hall | ★★★★☆ Nobody does it like Jeff. Not my words but those printed on the t-shirt of a fan at his show at the Royal Albert Hall. Few actors have forced their way into the cultural zeitgeist quite like Jeff Goldblum, whose personality looms over everything he does [...]
Francis Hotel Bath: Old-world glamour meets new-school cool

July 21, 2026

We braved the heatwave and the crowds to take a long weekend in Bath, a city that’s balances its ancient history with a tourist industry precision-engineered to meet the needs of the modern traveller – not least the newly renovated Francis Hotel Bath. As someone who lived in Scotland for more than a decade, it’s [...]
Toast the City Awards 2026 finalists announced – vote now!

July 16, 2026

It’s here: the Toast the City Finalists have been announced, with bars, restaurants, coffee shops, green spaces and more from across the City being celebrated in the Square Mile’s biggest and best awards. Now is your chance to vote for your favourite city spots – just visit our Toast the City website and cast your [...]

Reform hits back at Tory plan to ‘abolish inheritance tax’

Burnham 1-0 Khan: Cardiff right place for Fury vs Joshua boxing bout

Lotus, Porsche and Corvette: the best sports cars to buy in 2026

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