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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Apple Watch Ultra 2 is the brightest and best

October 23, 2024

We write a lot about watches at City AM. Watches that have been up as far as the moon. Watches that have been down as low as the Mariana Trench. The versions of these trail-blazing timepieces that end up being sold to the likes of you and I enjoy a rather less salubrious fate, adorning [...]
iPhone 16 Pro review: Amazing camera keeps Apple on top

October 17, 2024

The iPhone 16 Pro is not a reinvention of the wheel, rather a polishing of that wheel to an absurd degree, tweaking this, fiddling with that, and in doing so ensuring Apple’s flagship handset remains the phone to buy as we rattle towards the end of 2024. There are two items of headline news for [...]
The Other Place: Life is terrible, the play!

October 11, 2024

Greek tragedies revel in stories of rape and incest and trauma and abuse but we’re at least partly shielded from these horrors by 2000 years of distance and the prism of epic heroes and demigods. Transplant those same themes into a modern family home and, well, it hits different. The Other Place is playwright Alexander [...]
Mire Lee at the Tate Modern is the Turbine Hall at its very best

October 10, 2024

Wander into the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and you will be met by the unsettling sight of what look like flayed, bloodied skins hanging from heavy industrial chains overhead. Dozens of them, all a sickly pink, each one stretched over rusting wires. As you progress through the hall you discover the source of these grotesque [...]
Ibai review: This Basque restaurant is one of the best of the year

October 9, 2024

Creating a vibe is a tricky business. You can have the most beautiful dining room in the world and somehow end up with a tragic, inexplicable lack of vibes, even slipping into negative vibe territory, actively sucking the spirit out of your diners (see: Brasserie Zedel). On the other hand, you can have a brutalist [...]
Why Georgia’s capital Tbilisi is the most fascinating city in Europe

October 7, 2024

Towering over the Georgian capital of Tbilisi is Mtatsminda Park, a Soviet-era fairground and gardens set atop a craggy hill. Accessed by a funicular railway, you will find a host of terrifying, creaky old amusement rides, including the 65-metre-high Giant Wheel, which seems to bow outwards over the edge of a sheer cliff. Dotted around [...]
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit at Tate Modern – a house of horrors

October 3, 2024

Were you to stumble upon the works of Mike Kelley in, say, an abandoned warehouse rather than the galleries of the Tate Modern, you would fear for your safety, if not your sanity. Strolling through works collected from the late 1970s up until Kelley’s suicide in 2012 is like happening upon the headquarters of some [...]
Cush Jumbo: On playing Hamlet and choosing which cake to eat

October 3, 2024

There are two types of people: those who already know about Cush Jumbo, one of the finest British actors of her generation, and those who are soon to find out. The star of wildly successful TV shows including The Good Wife, Criminal Record and Deadwater Fell, Jumbo cemented her A-List credentials when she became the [...]
Airpods 4 review: ANC takes Apple’s buds to the next level

October 1, 2024

Of all the iconic products Apple has launched – at least visually speaking – the first generation of white, wired earbuds must be up there. I can still picture that ad campaign with silhouetted figures dancing against splashes of colour; wearing a pair marked you out as an iPhone enjoyer at a time when Apple [...]
A Face in the Crowd at Young Vic: Elvis Costello musical hits a dud note

September 26, 2024

How do you satirise populism, a system that seems beyond satire, that exists on a plane divorced from embarrassment, where no gaffe is too big or lie too outrageous? A Face in the Crowd just sort of muddles through, referencing events without dissecting them, pointing out problems but offering no hints at a solution. It’s [...]

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