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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Where’s the beef? Meat substitutes are suddenly big business: we try the UK’s first plant-based ‘bleeding burger’ and ask if meat will one day be a thing of the past

March 8, 2018

In the mockumentary Carnage, Simon Amstel imagines a future in which eating meat is as socially unacceptable as cannibalism. Groups of elderly people sit in therapy sessions trying to come to terms with the atrocities they committed against the animal kingdom, with the narrator quipping “‘Meat-free Monday’ now sounds about as appealing as ‘ethnic cleansing-free [...]
Phantom Thread review: Daniel Day-Lewis bows out with fantastically creepy period drama directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

February 2, 2018

There are few more enticing prospects than Paul Thomas Anderson, one of our greatest living filmmakers, directing Daniel Day-Lewis, one of our finest actors. Throw into the mix the frisson of extra excitement that comes with Day-Lewis’ claim that this will be his final acting role, and you have the ingredients for something unmissable. [...]
Roman J Israel Esq review: Denzel Washington shines but can’t quite save this messy law drama

February 2, 2018

Roman J Israel Esq lines up its ducks – a star actor on blistering form, a timely dissection of racial bias in the US legal system, a distinctive visual style – yet manages to come home empty handed. It’s the second feature from Dan Gilroy, following 2014’s chillingly nihilistic Nightcrawler. And while that was [...]
Dyson Cyclone v10 review: A cordless vacuum that can finally send poor old Henry off to the big dirty carpet in the sky

January 31, 2018

In today’s world of smart doorbells and smart thermostats and smart smoke alarms, people have become accustomed to their household appliances looking like props from a science fiction movie. But British company Dyson, founded in 1991, blazed the trail. Back then, the nation’s favourite vacuum cleaner had googly eyes and called itself Henry – [...]
Early Man film review: Aardman Animations returns to its roots with this prehistoric football fable

January 29, 2018

Aardman Animations, creator of beloved duo Wallace & Gromit, rarely puts a plasticine foot wrong. Its stop-motion shorts featuring a northern inventor and his indefatigable hound are classics for the ages, destined to be repeated every Christmas from now until the fiery end of days, passed from adoring parent to amazed child. Then came [...]
Nest Thermostat 3rd Generation review: An improvement on a winning formula

December 20, 2017

Every tech company wants to be “the Apple of X”. Nest – which was bought by Google in 2014 for $3.2bn – is the Apple of “really boring stuff ”. Smoke alarms. Doorbells. Thermostats. But in the same way Apple convinced millions of people that they really, really wanted to put their entire music [...]
Blue Satellite headphones review: Great sound, but these cans will leave you feeling Blue

December 20, 2017

Beginning life as a manufacturer of high-end equipment for audio professionals, Blue has been tentatively easing its way towards the lucrative consumer market for some time. Its new Satellite headphones are its most high street-friendly pair yet, but it still has some way to go to bridge the gap between studio and sidewalk. Compared [...]
Network at the National Theatre review: Bryan Cranston is electric in Ivo van Hove’s brilliant take on this Oscar-nominated movie

November 17, 2017

Dutch theatre director Ivo van Hove is nothing if not ambitious. This year alone he’s had Jude Law running on a treadmill as he delivered his lines in Obsession and filled the Barbican’s stage with water for his outstanding Persona. But Network, based on the 1976 satirical film of the same name, is on a [...]
iPhone X review: A decade after the release of the first phone, Apple hasn’t lost its Midas touch

November 16, 2017

The iPhone X is the biggest reinvention of the iPhone since… well, the iPhone. Apple is hardly shy when it comes to boasting about a new handset – every year Tim Cook takes to the stage and breathily exalts whatever happens to be in his hand as “the best phone we’ve ever made” – but [...]
Nest Protect review: A wantonly profligate but eminently stylish way to protect against smoke and fumes

November 16, 2017

It strikes to the core of everything that’s wrong with western civilization that a smoke alarm, perhaps the most baldly practical device ever invented, something whose sole purpose is to stop you from choking to death on sooty black clouds while you lie in your bed at night, can become a coveted piece of consumer [...]

New York Knicks could be first publicly traded NBA team in 24 years

New York Knicks could be first publicly traded NBA team in 24 years

Chiharu Shiota and Yin Xiuzhen at the Hayward Gallery

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