By: Steve Dinneen

Life&Style Editor I'm the editor of CityAM 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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This wildly reimagined A Midsummer Night’s Dream is riotously fun

March 3, 2016

Hammersmith Lyric | ★★★★☆ There are few things more tragic than Shakespeare’s comedies. The plots are silly, the pacing is woeful, and what jokes there are are usually buried in such antiquated language and stale cultural references that you need a degree in early modern literature to have a chance of properly appreciating them. But Filter [...]
Hail, Caesar! is a witty love letter to Hollywood’s Golden era

March 3, 2016

Dir. Joel and Ethan Coen | ★★★★☆ "Squint! Squint into the grandeur!” a film director yells as George Clooney, in a swinging leather skirt and scabbard, peers earnestly into the camera. He looks ridiculous, but then who wouldn’t? This image is the Coen brothers’ latest star-studded comedy in a nutshell, and thanks to their particular [...]
Botticelli Reimagined is a blockbuster show full of ideas and insights

March 3, 2016

V&A | ★★★★★ When an exhibition says it will focus on an artist’s “influence”, it’s often a signal that it hasn’t got enough of his or her work to show. The Royal Academy’s disastrous Rubens and His Legacy and the National Gallery’s Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art are cases in point, both containing far [...]
Canary Wharf homes are now a reality – get them while they’re hot

March 3, 2016

When the first homes went on sale at 10 Park Place on the Canary Wharf estate, there were buyers queuing a day early for them. When developer Galliard launched Maine Tower nearby, around £140m of property sold out within four hours, the equivalent of £580,000 worth of sales every minute. Now, it’s Telford Homes’ turn [...]
Thanks to Landmark Place, you never have to leave the Square Mile

March 3, 2016

Two new glass structures are set to join the banks, law firms and sky gardens that line the City’s riverside in the summer of 2018. Only this time, they’ll be housing wealthy residents who want to live on top of the financial district. A nine storey block will interconnect with an 11 storey block to [...]
We visit one of the last luxury chalets to be built in Courchevel

March 3, 2016

Perched high up in the Tarentaise Valley in France’s Rhone-Alpes region, Courchevel 1850 has long reigned as one of Europe’s most expensive and glitziest resorts – ranking top on both Knight Frank and Savills’ prime and ultra prime ski resort indices. Set in the vast Three Valleys area – the largest ski location in the [...]
Far Cry Primal review: a bloody, existential and very entertaining battle against nature

March 2, 2016

★★★★☆ | Platform: XBO, PS4, PC Ubisoft’s oft-used template for an open-world exploration game is a time-travelling golden goose, laying delicious golden eggs at some of history’s most entertaining moments of bloodshed and upheaval. Assassin’s Creed – Far Cry’s sibling franchise – has popped up in Victorian England, 15th century Florence and frontier-era America. It was only [...]
How Japanese whisky became the world’s hottest tipple (and which ones you should buy)

March 2, 2016

When a Japanese brand was named the world’s best whisky in 2014 – knocking Scottish distillers off the top spot for the first time – the news travelled across the globe. But to those in the know, it had been a long time coming. Japanese whiskies have been hotting up for a decade or more [...]
Now trending: Your new spring wardrobe in pictures

March 2, 2016

Fashion artist Emma Hopkins lays bare the latest styles for spring/summer 2016 to help you stay ahead of the crowd.
How E Tautz designer Patrick Grant is using Kickstarter to save the UK textiles business

March 2, 2016

Patrick Grant, the award-winning designer behind resurgent Savile Row tailor E Tautz, is best known for his modern take on traditional men’s tailoring. With his latest venture, however, he’s set his sights even higher: saving the UK textile industry. Community Clothing was born when E Tautz’s manufacturer Cookson and Clegg near Blackburn (also a supplier [...]

Ryanair hands O’Leary six-year extension

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Fogo de Chao nominated for Best Casual Dining Toast award

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