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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Tale of Tales film review: Salma Hayek is brilliant in this gory fairytale

June 17, 2016

Tale of Tales | Dir. Matteo Garrone | ★★★★☆ Italian film maker Matteo Garrone, best known for his realist Mafia drama Gomorrah, makes a surprising choice for his English language debut in this 17th century fairytale. We follow the interweaving stories of three monarchs – an ageing ruler (Toby Jones) who acquires a strange [...]
Soul at Hackney Empire review: This play about the life of Marvin Gaye fails to hit any high notes

June 17, 2016

Soul | Hackney Empire | ★☆☆☆☆ On April Fools Day, 1984, Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father in the house they shared. Gaye’s was a life ripe for drama, and Roy Williams’ new play explores it, seeking to answer the questions essential to understanding the man. Who was Marvin Gaye? Why [...]
Where You’re Meant to Be Film review: Arab Strap singer Aiden Moffat meditates on life, death, rivalry and the cultural importance of music

June 17, 2016

Where You're Meant To Be | Dir. Paul Fegan | ★★★★☆ This wistful documentary about a folk-music tour by former Arab Strap singer Aiden Moffat starts out as a road trip but becomes a meditation on life, death, rivalry and the cultural importance of music. The voice-over, delivered in Moffat’s distinctive dry prose, is [...]
Long Way North film review: Beautiful animation hides an age-old story

June 17, 2016

Long Way North | Dir. Rémi Chayé | ★★☆☆☆ Long Way North is at its best when nothing’s happening. The French-Danish animation, set in St Petersburg and voiced in English, unfurls languidly, idling over shots of the sun setting over the Winter Palace, or seagulls slowly circling a ship adrift in a blue ocean. The [...]
Late Night at the Barbican review: a surreal mesh of dance, sorrow and economic woe

June 17, 2016

Late Night | Barbican | ★★★★☆ Three couples sit in the wreckage of a music hall. A song comes on and they start to dance, expressionless, waltzing in neat circles around each other. Every so often one breaks ranks to stand before a microphone and deliver opaque lines of dialogue. Europe has fallen. War and [...]
E3 Round-up: All the top announcements from PlayStation VR and Xbox One S price and release date to Arkham VR, Death Standing and The Last Guardian news

June 15, 2016

Every year, the world’s gaming press jets off to Los Angeles to be wowed by Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and all the top games developers, who lay out their plans for the future of the industry. This year there was a big push for virtual reality, with the big players throwing their weight behind the nascent [...]
Guess which screen hero’s house this is: This company recreates famous apartments in 3D computer models

June 15, 2016

Recognise the layout of this apartment? The sunken, cream-carpeted “conversation-pit” living room? The bizarre patterned wallpaper surrounding the doorway from the kitchen to the corridor, from which the downstairs neighbour has made a few rapid exits following secret trysts? It is, of course, the trendy Manhattan apartment occupied by Mad Men’s anti-hero Don Draper, and [...]
Review: Tom Sellers, the man behind Story, strikes gold again with Restaurant Ours

June 15, 2016

Tom Sellers seemed to come out of nowhere. Sure, he’s worked for a bunch of great chefs, but aged 26 he opened Story, which made a big enough splash in the London restaurant scene that the ripples are still going. Try getting a table there at the weekend and you’ll see what I mean. The gimmick [...]
The Tate Modern extension will help transform the gallery into the world’s most cutting edge art space

June 14, 2016

It’s been 14 years in the planning, it’s four years overdue, and it cost £260m. But the extension to the Tate Modern will finally throw it’s doors open to the public on Friday. So has the project, the recipient of the largest cultural fundraising effort ever seen in the UK, been worth the wait? Has [...]
This new machine can tell how much muscle, fat and water you’re carrying

June 10, 2016

Smartwatches and fitness trackers claim to provide you with a plethora of information that can help you stick to your fitness goals. But in reality the information they provide is often superficial or, worse, useless. Knowing how many steps you’ve taken, or what your heartrate is, rarely plays into the average exercise regime. But that’s [...]

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Jinkx Monsoon’s Judy Garland musical proves drag is serious art

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