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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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 [...]
Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits at the Royal Academy review: There’s genius at play, but it’s shrouded in darkness

October 25, 2019

Wandering through the life of Lucian Freud, from awkward teen to darkly handsome young man to disheveled old artist, I was reminded of Nietzsche’s famous line, “If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” The longer you spend in the presence of Freud’s self portraits, taking in their raw, [...]
Bridget Riley at Hayward Gallery review: Art meets psychology in this brain-bending exhibition

October 25, 2019

Bridget Riley, one of the defining figures in the op art movement of the 1950s and 60s, was as much a psychologist as she was a painter. Her works aren’t really about what’s on the canvas (although her flawless brush strokes are certainly nice enough) – they’re about the sensations they provoke, the strange, hypnotic [...]
Can Gordon Ramsay hit gold again on the site of Maze with pan-Asian eating house Lucky Cat?

October 4, 2019

Ten years and several lifetimes ago, Jason Atherton was heading up the kitchen at Gordon Ramsay’s Maze. Back then, Ramsay could do no wrong. He was decorated with more Michelin awards than he could comfortably carry up a flight of stairs, owned lauded restaurants from New York to Tokyo, and was the sweary star of [...]
Real-life Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort reveals why the UK will survive Brexit

October 4, 2019

The most remarkable thing about Jordan Belfort, the self-styled Wolf of Wall Street, is not his once-prodigious drug consumption or the Bacchanalian excess of his infamous company Stratton Oakmont – it’s his sheer, bloody-minded staying power. In his 56 years he’s experienced bankruptcy, drug addiction and incarceration, losing more money than most people could earn [...]
Weekly Grill: Executive chef of Bōkan Restaurant in Canary Wharf Guillaume Gillan on how to improve your knife skills

October 4, 2019

Who are you and what do you do? My name is Guillaume Gillan, executive chef of Bōkan Restaurant in Canary Wharf. Tell us about your new menu We’ve just launched our new three course Early Sunset Dockyard menu. It’s seasonally led so changes every couple weeks, and is served from 6pm to 7.30pm, giving guests front row [...]
Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max review: The biggest leap in camera Apple has ever made

October 3, 2019

For many years the most important words in a phonemaker’s lexicon were “thinner”, “lighter”, and “faster”. The race to achieve the thinnest, lightest, fastest phone resulted in the dainty little rectangles we all know and love and hate. Any variation on the theme, such as the ill-fated modular phone, was swept aside, never to be [...]
Two Ladies at Bridge Theatre review: A gripping but unremarkable political drama

October 3, 2019

Two Ladies begins with a powerful image: FLOTUS Sophia enters with her cream two-piece covered with deep red blood. It’s a clear nod to Jackie Kennedy, and a neat introduction to the theme of Nancy Harris’s new play – the psychology of women who exist a manicured fingernail’s breadth from the most powerful jobs in [...]
Office Space: The weird and wonderful Shoreditch HQ of tech firm TransferWise

September 26, 2019

Tech start-ups are famous – or perhaps infamous – for their idiosyncratic offices filled with ping pong tables and hammocks and games consoles. But what happens when the start-up grows up? This is the position in which TransferWise finds itself: now eight years old, with nine offices around the globe and a total head-count of [...]

Sydney Sweeney Novig ad backlash shows how much women’s sport has changed

Sydney Sweeney Novig ad backlash shows how much women’s sport has changed

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