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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Mercedes-Benz GLS review: can it topple the Range Rover as the S-Class of SUVs?

May 27, 2016

The trouble with making the best car in the world is that you become a target for everyone else obsessed with doing better. The Mercedes-Benz S-Class is a wondrous machine whose chauffeurs, so often seen parked up in London watching the in-car TV, should count themselves very lucky indeed. But they’d be luckier still in [...]
Have women’s smartwatches just gone mainstream? There’s more to high-tech horology than the Apple Watch

May 23, 2016

Bettridge’s Law states that if a headline ends in a question mark, then the answer is “no”. If that were always the case, then a column such as this would be a very short read indeed. But the question “can a stylish woman wear a smart watch?” is more complex than a simple “no”. A [...]
The best dive watches 2016, from Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak to the perennial Omega Seamaster

May 23, 2016

A dive watch is the most conspicuous timepiece you can own, and the most hard-wearing: designed to shrug off the toughest life can throw at it, and look bloody marvellous while doing so. In fact, some of the greatest, most daring watch designs of all come down to those twin requirements of endurance and visibility, [...]
Ferrari California T Handling Speciale review with price and specs: a £150,000 delight, but better suited to the Tuscan Hills than the Tooting school run

May 23, 2016

Everyone should have a ‘bucket list’ – a checklist of things to do before kicking the bucket. Yours might include a meal in a Michelin-starred restaurant, a bungee jump or running a marathon dressed as a rhino. Mine was driving a Ferrari. Now, I should explain that, in eight years as a journalist, I’ve been [...]
This Is Living is a David Nicholls-style weepie starring This Is England’s Michael Socha

May 20, 2016

This is Living | Trafalgar Studios | ★★★★☆ This is Living is a weepy in the David Nicholls mould, effectively and sometimes shamelessly pressing the audience’s emotional buttons; at least a third of the people there on opening night were openly sobbing. The two-man play begins with Michael (Michael Socha, This Is England) standing over [...]
X-Men: Apocalypse review: James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender can’t salvage this incoherent X-jumble

May 19, 2016

X-Men: Apocalypse takes the franchise’s hard-won chips and bets them all on tumbling pyramids and slo-mo explosions. It sells the X-Mansion for a bag of CGI beans. It’s an incoherent jumble, lacking any kind of authoritative vision; a collection of disparate elements that rub uncomfortably against each other, more closely resembling a fan-made super-cut than [...]
A Hologram For The King starring Tom Hanks is a feel-good frolic for those who admire easy charm

May 19, 2016

A Hologram For The King | ★★★☆☆ Tom Hanks is enjoying something of a renaissance, courting Oscar once again with both Captain Phillips and last year’s Spielberg reunion Bridge of Spies. His new film, based on the 2012 Dave Eggers novel, sees him playing a charismatic American businessman looking to seal a tech deal in a [...]
The Rose and the Ring at The Charterhouse: How to enjoy country opera within the Square Mile

May 19, 2016

The Rose and The Ringw | The Charterhouse | ★★★★★ Country-house opera is a peculiar experience. You dress up, park your car on a rich Englishman’s estate, drink champagne and have a picnic, all the while being immersed in the operatic experience. The Charterhouse hosted a City-based version last week with a riotous production of [...]
Jeff Koons: Now at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street gallery features Three Ball 50/50 Tank, Balloon Monkey (Blue) and Bowl With Eggs (Pink) among other star attractions

May 19, 2016

Jeff Koons: Now | Newport Street gallery | ★★★★★ Whatever your opinion of Damien Hirst’s own artwork, it’s hard to fault his activity as a collector and proprietor of the fantastic Newport Street gallery. A strong start with his debut exhibition of John Hoyland paintings continues in this blockbuster survey of Jeff Koons: Now. Hirst’s [...]
David Baddiel’s My Family: Not the Sitcom at The Menier Chocolate Factory is deeply personal, cathartic and very, very funny

May 19, 2016

David Baddiel – My Family: Not the Sitcom | The Menier Chocolate Factory | ★★★★☆ A couple of years ago, after a long hiatus, David Baddiel returned to stand-up. Fame: Not the Musical was a wide-ranging investigation of what it means to be famous; it wove together personal anecdotes and dick jokes to produce a show [...]

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