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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Gillian Anderson is magnetic in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

October 6, 2026

Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup electrify Albee’s caustic marital battleground at @sohoplace; book now for a bruising West End night.
Es Devlin at the Design Museum: A fitting spectacle

October 1, 2026

Explore Es Devlin’s five-star Design Museum show, spanning 30 years of theatrical worlds, sketches and inspirations; book tickets by 4 April 2027.
Disinformation wars: The digital mafia weaponising online news

October 1, 2026

In part two of our investigation into the disinformation barons, Steve Dinneen dives into a world where hostile factions run smear campaigns for cash and victims have nowhere to hide. To catch up on the first part, follow this link “A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in [...]
Man to Man review: Tilda Swinton is sublime in play about survival amid turmoil

September 30, 2026

See Tilda Swinton command Man to Man, a stark survival drama tracing one woman’s ruse through Nazism, war, the Stasi and far-right echoes.
Josh O’Connor shines in Golden Boy, a boxing epic at the Almeida

September 28, 2026

Golden Boy | Almeida | ★★★★★ Boxing – and fighting more generally – has always made for thrilling pop culture. Raging Bull, Rocky, The Fighter, The Wrestler, The Smashing Machine: there is something inherently dramatic about stepping into the ring: two people, cordoned off from the world, engaged in a violent battle of wills. One [...]
Jay-Z tour review and special guests: He’s still got it

September 10, 2026

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

September 4, 2026

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

August 27, 2026

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 [...]

Revealed: The luxury London pads getting Healey’s energy handout – while poorer areas miss out

Russia wins legal bid to come in from the cold in international ice hockey

Inside the St Paul’s Fabric ‘raves’, which are nothing like you think

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