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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Henry Cavill to head up new Amazon show for FTSE 250 darling Games Workshop

December 20, 2022

Henry Cavill is to head up a new Warhammer 40k TV series for Amazon, with the announcement coming just days after his time as Superman appeared to have been cut short, and he announced he was leaving Netflix series The Witcher. The rollercoaster week, which began with heartbreak for fans of fantasy series The Witcher [...]
The best of 2022: The Lost King director Stephen Frears on the Tory meltdown

December 20, 2022

We caught up with director Stephen Frears as the Tories were in the midst of the Liz Truss meltdown, and while he was engrossed in the collapse of the government, he didn’t really want to speak with us. Read on for one of our more uncomfortable interviews. ••• “You think you’ve reached the bottom and [...]
Best of 2022: How Games Workshop founder Ian Livingstone created a £3bn giant

December 19, 2022

In a leafy enclave of West London, Ian Livingstone is balanced precariously upon a chair in his study, grasping for a top-shelf box filled with incredibly rare figurines. The legs of the chair creak in protest, and there is a moment when I fear I may be responsible for the untimely death of the man [...]
Shakespeare comes to @shohplace with this all-singing, all-signing As You Like It

December 16, 2022

For a new theatre like @sohoplace, the first handful of productions are foundational. They form an idea in the mind of audiences about what kind of place this is, and who it’s for. Last month’s Marvellous, a low-fi biopic of Staffordshire clown Neil “Nello” Baldwin, seemed a little leftfield but was a shrewd choice, having [...]
The best films of 2022, from Tom Cruise to Paul Thomas Anderson – but who won the top spot?

December 15, 2022

While not a classic vintage, this year still offered some cinema gems, with indie darlings taking their place at the top of our table alongside one of the best blockbusters ever made. Here’s the definitive list of the best films of 2022. 1. EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE This surreal comedy-drama stars Michelle Yeoh as [...]
The best London theatre of 2022, from Prima Facie to Jerusalem – but who got the top spot?

December 15, 2022

After two years of Covid, London theatre returned this year with a vengeance, kicking off with some of the best new and returning plays of the decade. Here are a few of our favourites. 1. CRUISE (APOLLO) Jack Holden’s incredible one-man show explores the fallout of the AIDS crisis in a spectacularly contemporary way. Having [...]
‘The prawns tasted of my parents getting divorced’ – Why we won’t be missing Trader Vic’s

December 8, 2022

Trader Vic’s, the Polynesian restaurant that’s occupied the basement of the Park Lane Hotel since 1963, is being evicted at the end of the year. Our restaurant critic Steve Dinneen, who ate there in 2013, certainly won’t be pouring out a pina colada into a coconut to bid it farewell. Here’s what he had to [...]
London’s best independent restaurants, bars and cafes, chosen by some of the city’s top creative minds

December 6, 2022

In London it’s often the biggest venues with the most expensive PR operations that catch the headlines, but it’s the small, independent bars and restaurants that make the fabric of the city. The Amex Shop Small initiative has launched The Little Blue Book of Sharing”, an initiative that profiles British creatives to find out the [...]
Othello at the National Theatre is a savage take on race and masculinity

December 4, 2022

It seems absurd that the first black man to play Othello at the National Theatre was David Harewood, as recently as 1997. A young Clint Dyer, visiting the National in the 1980s, was horrified by the theatre’s – and every other theatre’s – continuing use of blackface, even defacing a photograph of Laurence Olivier playing [...]
Top boozy advent calendars to count in Christmas

December 1, 2022

Christmas is coming! Count down the days with one of these drinks-based advent calendars, putting a grownup spin on a festive childhood tradition. WHISKY EXCHANGE SPIRITS ADVENT CALENDAR The Whisky Exchange has assembled a veritable smorgasbord of spirits for the holiday season. Each day will bring a new surprise, with this diverse collection consisting of [...]

Virgin Atlantic ends British Airways grip on Team GB partnership

Virgin Atlantic ends British Airways grip on Team GB partnership

Electra/Persona at the National Theatre review: A dull mash-up of Sophocles and Bergman

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