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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I’m sorry but the internet is at it again. The real reason OnlyFans users are posting unsolvable riddles on TikTok

January 30, 2023

The internet has been at it again. The lucrative sliver of Venn diagram between OnlyFans and TikTok has figured out that posting nonsense pseudo-riddles is a great way of amplifying engagement. Now there are loads of them, including the one explained below. As I bravely reported a few weeks ago, a (presumably) 26-year-old nursing assistant [...]
Minecraft makeover: This is what Sadiq Khan looks like with a perfectly square head

January 26, 2023

Have you ever wondered what London’s long-standing mayor Sadiq Khan would look like with a perfectly square head? Now you can find out for sure after he was brought to life as a character in the video game Minecraft. With his grey hair, the faintest hint of 5 o’clock shadow and those kind, slightly sleepy [...]
Reddit user’s outrageous pan project sends internet into meltdown

January 25, 2023

There is an unlikely new star of Reddit: a user called fatmummy222 who has become perhaps the most famous cast iron pan seasoner in history after larding, buffing and heating the same pan 80 times until it glistens like a portal into another dimension. The user posted the epic experiment to the subreddit r/castiron and [...]
Beyonce Dubai gig at Atlantis The Royal: Inside the world’s most lavish launch

January 24, 2023

“There are two types of people in the world. The people that are in Dubai right now. And us.” So went the meme, shared tens of millions of times across the world this weekend. The occasion – as if you haven’t already heard – was the launch of a self-described “icon”, the Atlantis The Royal [...]
Paul Mescal roars onto London stage in gripping new Streetcar Named Desire

January 19, 2023

★★★★☆ The Almeida’s production of Tennessee Williams’ steamy southern gothic A Streetcar Named Desire was one of the most hotly anticipated plays of 2022, with Normal People star Paul Mescal lending some zeitgeist-capturing sex appeal to this sad tale of fantasy, identity and mental illness. But on the eve of opening, lead actor Lydia Wilson [...]
Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland, charged with domestic violence, sent sexual, offensive Twitter messages to musician

January 14, 2023

A day after Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland was charged with domestic violence, American musician Allie Goertz tweeted a series of graphic, sexual and offensive private Twitter messages she received from the cartoon-maker. One undated message read: “Can you write a song about 9 dicks of different sizes and ethnic origins hanging over your [...]
The riddle of the Nursing Assistant: Twitter user solves viral case

January 13, 2023

For the last year Twitter has been racking its collective brain to try to unravel what has become known as The Riddle of the Nursing Assistant. Last December a Tik Tok user called @thisis_bex cross-posted a rather thirsty picture of what we assume to be herself alongside the cryptic caption: “Imagine how good your life [...]
The best upcoming film, art and theatre in London to book now in 2023

January 12, 2023

Thursday is the new Friday! In our new Thursday Going Out section we bring you a list of all the things we’re looking forward to this year from the worlds of art, theatre and film. 2023 already looks like a classic. Theatre A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, 13 JANUARY – 4 FEBRUARY, ALMEIDA This Almeida production [...]
Tar review: Cate Blanchett shines as a predatory composer

January 12, 2023

★★★★★ Cate Blanchett is a maestro playing a maestro in Tar, putting in a devastating performance in which she conducts the audience just as her character conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. From the first time we see her, Lydia Tar – a fictional character with some pointed similarities to real-life luminaries of the classical music [...]
M3gan review: A Black Mirror-esque take on the classic murder puppet

January 11, 2023

★★★★☆ There is a proud cinematic tradition of haunted doll movies. You can trace the lineage back from Annabelle (first appearing in The Conjuring in 2013), through to Chucky (Child’s Play, 1988), all the way back to Hugo the ventriloquist’s dummy from 1945 horror anthology Dead of Night. Glossy new sci-fi horror M3gan picks up [...]

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