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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Dora Maar at the Tate Modern review: Forget what you think you know

November 29, 2019

Like so many women throughout history, Dora Maar is best known for her connection to a more famous man. For many art historians, she’s a footnote in the biography of Pablo Picasso, one of many young women the creepy cubist collected throughout his life. But this is 2019: if Picasso were around today he’d be [...]
Rodrigues: The Indian Ocean’s hidden paradise

November 29, 2019

Walking into Rodrigues’ Reserve François Leguat is one of those wild moments that will stay with you forever. As you enter a deep, green valley, you’re greeted by dozens of giant tortoises, which amble amiably towards you, ponderously dragging their massive bulk across the grass in the hope you’ll toss them a lime. They are [...]
Death Stranding review: Hideo Kojima’s game about delivering parcels hits dizzying highs and terrible lows

November 20, 2019

There’s an entire genre of games disparagingly referred to as “walking simulators”. In most of them, walking is simulated in only the most rudimentary of ways – you tend to glide about the place, looking at sunsets and picking up fruit. Japanese auteur Hideo Kojima has created a true walking simulator, a game in which [...]
AirPods Pro review: An incredible step up to the top table of mobile audio for Apple

November 15, 2019

Apple’s regular AirPods leave me cold. They look daft, with their elongated stalks – often compared to toothbrush heads – and have such poor sound insulation that unless you’re listening to music in an hermetically sealed room, everything sounds distant and muddy. When Sony came along with its excellent WF-1000XM3 noise cancelling buds it was [...]
Chef’s Table: Flor’s James Lowe invites My Dad Wrote a Porno creator Alice Levine for lunch

November 4, 2019

The Lunch: Bread; Anchovy toast, lardo di colonnata, marjoram; Scarlet prawns, orange yuzu kosho; Palourde clam flatbread, spenwood, vin jaune, lautrec garlic; burrata, chestnut, pickled walnuts; Turbot, cultured butter, ‘les molates’ savagnin Alice Levine: Thanks for having me James. I remember when we first met – it was when I was doing supper clubs and [...]
Doctor Sleep film review: Returning to the Overlook Hotel is a joy in this mid-tier horror

November 1, 2019

Stephen King hated Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining. He didn’t like the way Kubrick’s film existed purely in the realms of psychological metaphor, and he didn’t care for the unsympathetic portrayal of the Torrance family (I suspect Kubrick’s brusque treatment of King, refusing to even read his original screenplay, had something to do with [...]
The Antipodes at the National Theatre: An excruciating look at the creative process

November 1, 2019

Writing stories is hard. This seems to be the message behind Annie Baker’s new play The Antipodes, an excrutiating, self-indulgent insight into the misery of the creative process. The entire play takes place in a nondescript conference room, in which a bunch of writers fawn over an aging director reminiscent of George Lucas. His methods [...]
24/7 at Somerset House review: The story of a world in flux

November 1, 2019

For an exhibition about how fragmented and confusing modern life can be, 24/7 at Somerset House has an appropriately short attention span. The flashing, clattering, often overwhelming show bounces from subject to subject, medium to medium, tackling issues as diverse as screen addiction, mass surveillance, light pollution and sleep disturbance. It tells the story of [...]
New iPad 2019 review: A solid machine and an absolute steal at just £349

November 1, 2019

Almost a decade has passed since the release of the first generation iPad, a device that created an entire category of consumer tech and cemented Apple as the world’s hottest purveyor of shiny gadgetry. And looking at the latest entry-level iPad – the 7th generation, if you’re keeping score – you’d be forgiven for thinking [...]
Artist Gavin Turk on getting arrested, collecting junk and trying to save the planet

October 30, 2019

A generation of artists and musicians and filmmakers are starting to engage with climate change in the way creators in the mid-1960s engaged with the anti-war movement. You couldn’t move during this year’s Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, for instance, without falling over an oblique reference to the planet dying. But in the case [...]

Fifa crisis shows that fans must get a say in who succeeds Infantino as president

Fifa crisis shows that fans must get a say in who succeeds Infantino as president

Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s Caskmaster 2026 championship comes to London

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