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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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 [...]
Oval Space Terrace: the hip bar, club and events space in east London launches a brilliant new food venture

July 12, 2016

We pick out the best new spaces to eat around London. This week Oval Space Terrace, the hip east London venue that now sells restaurant-quality food five days a week. WHAT? If you live in east London and you don’t know about Oval Space, you’re doing it all wrong. It’s an events and club space with a [...]
John Wesley exhibition: the Los Angeles-based artist to host exhibition at London’s Waddington Custot

July 12, 2016

At first glance, you might throw Wesley in with the pop artists. Recurring female nudes recall a less fetishised Allen Jones, the industrial blocks of colour echo both Haring and Lichtenstein, his rhythmic repetition brings to mind Warhol. But Wesley sits uneasily in this company; even his more overtly pop motifs – Pop Eye and [...]
Honda NSX review: is this the most high-tech sports car in the world? We think so, and this is why…

July 11, 2016

My first drive of the new Honda NSX would be on a racetrack, at speed, with the man who has spent the last four years of his life making this car a worthy successor to the legendary, 25-year-old original. Crash this and Honda’s Ted Klaus would personally kick me out the Circuito do Estoril. It’s [...]
Cyprus Chill: how to really kick back in this undiscovered corner of the Med

July 8, 2016

‘Most of what you see has been untouched for the last 40 years because of our political situation,” says my guide Yusuf, gesturing to the ruins behind him.“The embargo imposed on us by the international community after the country divided in 1974 has meant that we have been unable to excavate any of this site.” [...]
The Neon Demon review: Nicolas Winding Refn’s follow-up to Gosling smash Drive is a work of haunting genius

July 8, 2016

The Neon Demon is to modelling what Requiem for a Dream is to heroin. It seduces you with visions that are equal parts urban grit and starry ambition, then delivers a punch-in-the-gut verdict, summarily, “Hey, kids, drugs are all fun and games until you get your arm sawn off.” In a similarly brutal fashion, Elle [...]
The Legend of Tarzan movie is visually impressive but tonally deaf and rather dull

July 8, 2016

This new take on the Edgar Rice Burroughs books finds Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgard) living in Victorian London as Lord Greystoke. He is recalled to his former home in The Congo to investigate potential slave trade in the region, but has been lured into a trap by a corrupt Belgian official Captain Rom (Christoph Waltz). With [...]
Weiner review: US politician Anthony Weiner stars in the first truly Shakespearean documentary about dick pics

July 8, 2016

If you’ve heard of Anthony Weiner, chances are it’s because you know him as the US politician with a penchant for sending pictures of his junk to ladies over the internet. This exceptional documentary follows him from the start of his ill-fated campaign to become Mayor of New York City, shortly after the first scandal [...]
Maggie’s Plan shoots for playful rom-com but gets snarled up in “total sociopath” territory

July 8, 2016

In off-beat romantic comedy Maggie’s Plan, a half-adorable, half-infuriating woman (Greta Gerwig) who wants a baby put in her post-haste forgoes both the sweaty method and the tricky paperwork. Instead she takes receipt of a sample of gunk from a helpful old school friend turned artisan pickle salesman, before falling in love with a married [...]
Georgia O’Keeffe at the Tate Modern: flowers and skulls abound, but don’t mention vaginas

July 7, 2016

A teacher in America was recently fired for saying the word “vagina” in front of her class during a discussion about Georgia O’Keeffe’s series of flower paintings. O’Keeffe would be mad about this for two reasons: firstly, the sheer ludicrousness of her puritanical home country, where women can’t so much as mention their genitals without [...]

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