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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Glasgow’s Dakota Deluxe hotel review: a Hollister-hip new venture from the kingpin of Scottish hotels

July 15, 2016

Steve Dinneen takes a break in his former hometown of Glasgow, where he finds a much improved hotel scene and restaurants that are as good as ever. The weekend: For many southerners, a weekend break to Scotland involves a trip to Edinburgh Castle or a few rounds at Gleneagles. And while these are both perfectly [...]
Keanu film review: a clever pastiche of action films and urban culture starring TV duo Key and Peele

July 14, 2016

How far would you go to save a cat? That's the question asked by this new action-comedy from TV duo Key and Peele, the cousins forced to become gangsters by a nefarious drug dealer (Method Man) in order to get their beloved kitten Keanu back. The stars have a terrific natural rapport, morphing seamlessly from [...]
How British designers like Burberry, Paul Smith and Alexander McQueen influenced the design of stunning flats at One Tower Bridge

July 14, 2016

July sunshine and the smell of newly mown grass hit me as I stepped out of the latest show apartment at One Tower Bridge on Monday morning. How evocative of a British summer at its best. Built by Squire and Partners for Berkeley Homes, it is this, the development’s iconic location on the south bank [...]
Ghostbusters at the Imax, The Lambeth Country Show and the world’s first VR play: 11 things to do in London this weekend

July 14, 2016

1. Go to Barbican to see Ragnar Kjartansson Art, Barbican Centre, 10.00-17.30, £12 A self-aware, light-hearted, occasionally laugh-out-loud funny show, and a rare chance to enjoy a master of performance art whose work has never before been collected in the UK. 2. And while you’re there, book tickets to see Needles and Opium Theatre, Barbican [...]
Ctrl at RADA Studios by Breaking Fourth is the world’s first VR play, and we can’t get enough of it

July 14, 2016

This debut feature from Breaking Fourth claims to be the first Virtual Reality play, combining elements of video game storytelling with both traditional and immersive theatre. In this case, the “theatre” is a dark room filled with swivel chairs, where you’re given a short, in-character introduction before being told to don your VR headset (Samsung [...]
The Stripper play at St James Theatre review: Richard O’Brien’s follow-up to The Rocky Horror Picture Show gets stuck in a sexist time warp

July 13, 2016

This 1980 musical by Rocky Horror writer Richard O’Brien – itself an adaptation of Carter Brown’s pulpy 1959 short story – fails at any point to justify its revival. O’Brien’s hero is Al Wheeler (Sebastien Torkia), a California cop who fails to save the suicidal Patty Keller (Gloria Onitri) from a window ledge drop. “Did [...]
Unreachable at the Royal Court theatre review: former Doctor Who Matt Smith adds sparkle to this meandering tale of egotistical genius

July 13, 2016

Anthony Neilson’s latest play is a wry examination of tortured artists and overblown filmmakers, a cautionary tale of how ego can sever your links to reality. It may remind you of the more dramatic people on your Instagram feed. Troubled director Maxim (Matt Smith) is obsessed with capturing light on film. Not just any light: [...]
Men & Chicken movie review: Mads Mikkelsen stars in this deranged, blacker than black Danish comedy

July 13, 2016

This pitch-black Danish comedy touches upon incest, sex addiction, bestiality and vivisection, yet still manages to be disarmingly adorable. It follows two cleft-lipped brothers, depressive Gabriel (David Dencik) and compulsive masturbator Elias (Mads Mikkelsen, in a role as far from his part as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale as it’s possible to get) as they search [...]
Ragnar Kjartansson at Barbican review: top Icelandic artist explores the point where performance meets reality

July 13, 2016

Every five years Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson records a video of his mother repeatedly spitting in his face. So far there are four videos, which play side-by-side in this Barbican retrospective of his work. They encapsulate a question that’s fascinated him throughout his career – where do performance and reality meet? His mother is a [...]
Needles and Opium at barbican review: a surreal jazz noir and absurdist Miles Davis tribute

July 13, 2016

Needles and Opium is a surreal jazz noir staged in a giant revolving cube. It’s a revival of a 1991 play by mercurial French Canadian theatre director Robert Lepage, whose past works include Lipsynch, a nine-hour meditation on the human voice. This play begins with actor Marc Labrèche – who also starred in the production [...]

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