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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Mary Harron interview: Daliland director on working with Sir Ben Kingsley

October 19, 2023

Mary Harron interview: 'The amazing thing with someone like Ben Kingsley is his weight of experience' – the Daliland director on her new film
Daliland: Ben Kingsley hams it up as Salvador Dali

October 19, 2023

Despite the subject matter, Salvador Dali biopic Daliland is a surprisingly cosy period drama – I just can’t help wishing it were more.
Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward Gallery: Nothing is what it seems

October 12, 2023

Nothing is as it seems in this retrospective of the 50 year career of Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.
London Cocktail Week: Everything you need to know about this festival of booze

October 11, 2023

With 150 events taking place over 11 days, this year’s London Cocktail Week is bigger than ever, with more than 300 cocktails to try
iPhone 15 Pro Max review: Light, camera, action

September 29, 2023

In a smartphone landscape where iterative improvements are the best you can really hope for, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is one hell of an iterative improvement. It takes the powerhouse of the iPhone range and supercharges it through innovative use of new materials, substantial hardware upgrades and those little quality of life tweaks that [...]
Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play: A tough slog at the Young Vic

September 28, 2023

Kimber Lee’s Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play had me right up until the moment when it didn’t. It’s a work filled with righteous indignation about the portrayal of Asian people in popular fiction, from Madam Butterfly to Miss Saigon to a thousand other white, colonial fantasies about mystical “orientals”. The same story is essentially acted [...]
Andrew Scott shines in strange one-man Vanya

September 21, 2023

Vanya is as much a thought experiment as a piece of drama, but one that’s anchored by an astonishing performance from Andrew Scott
Marina Abramovic at the Royal Court: As harrowing and vital as ever

September 21, 2023

Picasso with cubism, Basquiat with graffiti Andy Warhol with pop art. Marina Abramovic, perhaps the most famous performance artist who ever lived, long ago joined that vanishingly small circle of artists whose work has come to define an entire movement. A new retrospective of her work, which snakes through the galleries of the Royal Academy, [...]
The best Irish pubs in London: Drink Guinness to help out

September 20, 2023

Everyone knows the pub industry is in dire straits, with 25 closing every week since the pandemic. The latest to close its doors, at least temporarily, is the legendary McGlynn’s in King’s Cross. Following the death of its landlord the pub hasn’t opened since earlier this month, a situation described as “alarming” by night czar [...]
1 Lombard Street and Coq d’Argent turn 25: How two restaurants changed the City

September 13, 2023

A quarter of a century ago, the City was a very different place. Back then men in suits – and they were still mostly men – would commute in early, spend a few hours at their desk before taking a long, usually boozy lunch. After work, they would either decant to the West End or [...]

Sport business quiz 2025: Test your knowledge with City AM’s topical teasers

Sport business quiz 2025: Test your knowledge with City AM’s topical teasers

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