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, wine, going out, culture, technology and travel. I'm also the head judge of our Toast the City awards that celebrates hospitality in the Square Mile. Find me on X @steve_dinneen

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In defence of the skeuomorph

September 19, 2012

Apple’s new phone has already become the single most coveted thing in the history of human existence, storming past the Holy Grail, basic sustenance, love and even existence itself (posing some difficult ontological questions that people are too distracted by the iPhone 5 to properly consider). Ahead of the official launch tomorrow, Apple has begun [...]
Hirst’s Tate retrospective is brash, crass and completely compelling

April 12, 2012

Damien Hirst | Tate Modern | ★★★★☆ The killer killed. The inevitability and unfathomability of death. Death, death, death. Spot, spot, death, spot, death. You know what you get with Hirst. His pickled shark has become shorthand not just for his body of work but for a generation of modern art, as have his ubiquitous [...]
The Master and Margarita: Surreal, nightmarish and brilliant

March 22, 2012

THE MASTER AND MARGARITA | The Barbican | ★★★★★ Cowardice is the worst sin” is a phrase often repeated in Mikhail Bulgakov’s hallucinatory satire The Master and Margarita. And cowardice is certainly not an accusation that can be levelled at Complicite’s production – it is a bold, cacophonous, at times baffling play that never flinches [...]
REVIEW: Rampart

February 24, 2012

Film RAMPART Cert: 15 **** by Steve Dinneen The LAPD doesn’t get the easiest of rides from its local film studios. Rarely is there a film espousing its values as the saviour of the American people. Rampart, though, takes this to a whole new level. Woody Harrelson’s David Douglas Brown is as corrupt as they [...]

Bank of England’s Bailey: Interest rate cuts not on the horizon

Streaming surpasses free-to-air TV in key European markets, research shows

We road test RDR, Star Wars Outlaws and Fallout 4 on Switch 2

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