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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Timothy Spall excels in The Old Vic’s The Caretaker

April 7, 2016

The Old Vic | ★★★★☆ Harold’s Pinter’s first big hit, The Caretaker, is a frenetic comedy about three social outcasts, all woefully incapable of communicating with each other. This claustrophobic play takes place inside a leaky loft conversion strewn with lofty piles of newspapers and a host of unfinished DIY projects. It’s exhausting just looking [...]
X at the Royal Court review: a terrifying, claustrophobic space horror that comes unravelled

April 7, 2016

Royal Court | ★★★☆☆ The best science fiction is virtually always a vehicle for social commentary, a metaphor for talking about the here and now. Alien can be read as an advocation of abortion; Dune reflects the geopolitics of the Cold War-era oil industry; Dawn of the Dead is a critique of consumerism. But, crucially, you [...]
Whistler at the Fine Art Society shows an artist who was rightly considered thoroughly radical

April 7, 2016

James McNeill Whistler is best known for his painterly concern for harmony of tones and mood, rather than overtly symbolic or moral content. This is famously evident in his Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 of 1871, commonly known as Whistler’s Mother. What is less known is that he was also an extraordinary pioneer both [...]
Mechanical doesn’t mean medieval: the most advanced traditional watches

April 7, 2016

You don’t have to make too many circuits of the Silicon Roundabout and its environs to notice that, even at the heart of the tech community, there’s more to wristwatches than those prefixed with the word “smart”. In fact, the traditional wristwatch is one of the most technologically advanced gadgets to have ever appeared, and [...]
Three of the world’s most advanced trainers

April 7, 2016

New production methods are paving the way for a whole new generation of advanced sneakers that are not only more comfortable than ever: they're also helping to save the planet. APL Blade APL, or Athletic Propulsion Labs, was founded in Los Angeles by identical twins Adam and Ryan Goldston who wanted to enable athletes to [...]
Beautiful things: from digital turntables to robot vacuum cleaners

April 7, 2016

Beautiful things: from digital turntables to robot vacuum cleaners
New photography exhibition seeks out the implausible in the everyday

April 7, 2016

Photographer Stephen Shore’s most striking work comes from his epic tour across 1970s America in search of what could be called the “extraordinary ordinary”. Many of his pictures depict the everyday life of Americans that, frozen in time, divorced from the mundanity of life, seem unbelievable. Badlands National (pictured) shows a tiny, unremarkable house, a [...]
Quantum Break review: this time-travel drama for the Netflix generation fails to live up to hype

April 6, 2016

There’s a scene in Quantum Break in which you walk through an eerily silent scene of unfurling devastation. A molotov cocktail hangs in the air, flames streaming behind it. Cars and containers glitch back and forth while the environment seethes and writhes in a ballet of polygons. It’s a reminder of the potential that this [...]
Audi’s new Q7 e-tron helps owner VW escape Dieselgate scandal

April 4, 2016

The Q7 is a big, brash SUV made by Volkswagen Group’s upmarket Audi brand and fitted with a 3.0-litre turbodiesel engine. But you can drive it in London guilt-free, without paying the congestion charge and avoiding road tax. How? Because it’s fitted it with an electric motor alongside the conventional engine – and you can [...]
Artist focus: John Kørner’s land of milk and honey

April 1, 2016

John Kørner is one of Denmark’s most recognisable contemporary artists, his semi-abstract works probing the ills of 21st century society, from poverty to sex work. Although he’s an accomplished sculptor, he’s best known for his vivid, ethereal, often wryly funny paintings: a man rifling through a skip in After Christmas; an old woman barfing against [...]

Mike Ashley’s Frasers makes £1.7bn takeover offer for Hugo Boss

Everton ‘surprised and angered’ at losing £40m legal case with Burnley

Vino by the waves: The best British seaside hotels for wine

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