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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What to do in London for Christmas, from carols to food and drink

December 1, 2022

Whether you’re after carols in a cathedral or a knees-up in a brewery, we have the perfect Christmas outing for you. CHRISTMAS CAROLS AT ST PAUL’S Short of getting a ride in Santa’s sleigh, there can be little more festive than singing Christmas carols in the stunning surrounds of St Paul’s Cathedral. This year there [...]
Atelier Wren on how to design an ‘it’ restaurant

November 29, 2022

Saltie Girl in Mayfair is London’s newest “it” restaurant, already frequented by celebs from Salma Hayek to Robert Pattinson. We caught up with Jake Raslan and Lorenzo Buscaroli, the interior design duo behind Atelier Wren, the studio that brought the space to life. What was your vision for Saltie Girl? JAKE RASLAN: Saltie Girl is [...]
Of dice and men: How Ian Livingstone conquered the nerd universe

November 11, 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 [...]
A Dead Body in Taos is a smart sci-fi that swings and misses

November 4, 2022

A Dead Body in Taos starts promisingly. A young English woman is called to New Mexico following the sudden death of her mother. Daughter Sam’s initial shock at her mother’s apparent suicide grows exponentially when a tech company claims to have created a digital version of Kath, with her last wishes being to live on [...]
Lisboeta by Nuno Mendes is as good as you’d hope from the star chef

November 4, 2022

Nuno Mendes knows what he’s doing. He worked for elBulli when it was the hottest kitchen in the world, combining art and science to change the way we think about modern cooking. He opened a gastro-pub in Hoxton just when it was dawning on regular joes like you and I that pub food could be [...]
Immerse yourself in Scorn’s thrilling hellscape this Halloween

October 28, 2022

Scorn is the kind of game that makes you wonder what the whole deal is with humans. It’s designed in every way to be as unnerving, unpleasant and uncomfortable as possible, and yet it’s a compelling, even thrilling seven hours of your life. Designed by Serbian studio Ebb Software, it’s a love letter to Alien [...]
The Horror Show! at Somerset House is bizarre and brilliant

October 28, 2022

The Horror Show! at Somerset House is hands down the weirdest major exhibition of the year. What sounds like a common-or-garden spooky Halloween show is in fact a kind of potted history of British counterculture from the 1980s until 2010. At least I think that’s what it is – after spending well over an hour [...]
Elton John’s new Tammy Faye musical is a glitter-ball triumph

October 28, 2022

It’s hard to imagine a better team to assemble a new musical. James Graham: the prolific young playwright behind works including Best of Enemies, Quiz and The Vote. Rupert Goold: the Almeida’s artistic director who’s been involved in some of the best plays of the last decade. Jake Shears: the singer and songwriter behind the [...]
Good at the Harold Pinter theatre sees David Tennant on fine form as a reluctant Nazi

October 15, 2022

CP Taylor’s 1981 play is a strange beast, the action tumbling through space and time as David Tennant’s professor John Halder recalls the events leading up to the Holocaust, for which he is accidentally, kind-of responsible for, in a roundabout way. Halder is a literary professor in 1930s Germany who once wrote a novel about [...]
Apple Watch Series 8 review: More of the same good stuff

October 13, 2022

Place the new Apple Watch Series 8 on your desk besides the Series 7 and even Tim Cook would have trouble telling them apart. It keeps the same smooth curves and ultra-slim bezels as the previous generation, which itself only incrementally updated a design that had remained the same since 2018. Unlike the iPhone, the [...]

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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