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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A long weekend in Lucerne, Switzerland, a place of almost unimaginable beauty

July 22, 2016

Where: Cradle of local hero William Tell, home of Wagner, Lucerne is a cobalt, lakeside idyll, ringed by mythical snow- capped mountains, a gorgeous Swiss City with a medieval Altstadt (Old Town), historic covered bridges, cobbled squares where perfectly conserved Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance houses, decorated with mosaics, jostle together inside towering city walls. First made [...]
11 things to do in London this weekend, including watching Usain Bolt, geeking out to Star Trek and enjoying William Eggleston’s photographs

July 21, 2016

1. Go and see some filthy cabaret at the Hippodrome Cabaret, Hippodrome, Saturday, 19.30, from £15-£50 Inspired by 1930s Parisian cabaret but also swiping at the mainstream success of Cirque du Soleil, this is a sassy combination of smut and sparkle. 2. Remember your childhood watching The BFG Film, IMAX Waterloo, Saturday, 11.15, £20 A saccharine-sweet [...]
Ming of Harlem film review: an art house movie about a man who kept a tiger in his New York apartment

July 21, 2016

For several years Antoine Yates kept a Bengal tiger in his fifth floor New York apartment, until the day the cat sank its carving knife sized fangs into the man’s leg. Unsurprisingly, doctors weren’t convinced by Yates’s claim that he’d been bitten by his pet dog, and so the authorities were alerted. Back at his [...]
Blanc de Blanc at the Hippodrome casino is a sassy combination of smut and sparkle

July 21, 2016

The Hippodrome Casino doesn’t exactly have a surfeit of cultural kudos. But hidden in its depths is a cosy cabaret theatre and its latest show is a sassy combination of smut and sparkle. Blanc de Blanc is devised by highly-acclaimed Australian theatre company Strut & Fret and transfers to the West End via the Sydney [...]
Chevalier film review: Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s film is a delightful, entrancing oddity

July 21, 2016

Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s new comedy has a simple conceit: six men with varying backgrounds are holidaying – or are they imprisoned? – on a lavishly furnished yacht. They’re restricted to the boat for the vast majority of the film, giving it a distinctly theatrical flavour, recalling Harold Pinter both in the banal precision [...]
Watches as investments: How the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona might be the most collectible watch ever, if only you could get your hands on one

July 21, 2016

Last year two anonymous phone bidders made history when their feverish nine minutes of bidding ended with a Patek Philippe 5016A selling for $7.3m – 10 times its estimate. The crowd at the La Reserve Hotel in Geneva burst into spontaneous applause, delighted to have witnessed the sale of the most expensive wrist-watch ever. Stories [...]
The BFG: Steven Spielberg’s mega-bucks adaptation captures the surface but misses the soul of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic

July 20, 2016

There's a lot of common ground between Steven Spielberg and Roald Dahl. Both incarnate aspects of childhood; the unrefined wonderment, the valorisation of innocence. And for long stretches, this mega-budget live-action adaptation seems like a great fit. Mark Rylance, as the titular Big Friendly Giant, provides much of the charm, playing his part with dignity [...]
Bronte restaurant on The Strand review: the Pacific Rim-inspired menu takes few risks and makes few mistakes

July 19, 2016

"How do you find enough new restaurants to review a different one every week?” asked my father during our monthly chat. Bless the old fool: he lives in Derbyshire and can’t be expected to know any better. He’s oblivious to the fact you could bankrupt yourself visiting a new restaurant every night of the week [...]
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 [...]

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