Toast the City: Steel Yard founder tells us why his venue should win September 15, 2025 Our Toast the City Awards are celebrating the City’s top spots and takes place this October. This week: The Steel Yard music venue. The finalists have been announced for the inaugural Toast the City Awards, with the finest restaurants, bars, green spaces and more being whittled down to just a handful of names. Now it’s your chance [...]
Erin Doherty on surviving Adolescence, queer storytelling and hating her phone September 15, 2025 Erin Doherty rose to fame as the young Princess Anne in The Crown, but this year has found new success working alongside Stephen Graham on two projects, A Thousand Blows and Adolescence. She tells Adam Bloodworth how playing a child psychologist in the latter ‘consumed’ her, the type of queer stories she’d like to tell [...]
RML GT Hypercar 2025 review: pushing the Porsche 911 to its limit September 11, 2025 Does the world need another Porsche 911-based restomod? After all, that territory is already fought over by Singer Vehicle Design, Theon Design, Tuthill, Kalmar Automotive, Gunther Werks, Paul Stephens AutoArt, Ruf, Thornley Kelham and many more. The RML GT Hypercar, however, is far removed from a typical ‘backdated’ 964. With a current Porsche platform and [...]
The Grand Ole Opry, London edition: everything to know as legendary Nashville show hits capital September 11, 2025 The Grand Ole Opry earmarked the beginnings of the careers of legends including Dolly Parton and Taylor Swift, both of whom played the show as teenagers. In Nashville, the home of Country music, locals gather every Saturday night to watch a variety of musicians sing live at the Opry, a Church-like auditorium on the fringes [...]
Whisky Business: Distillery tours saving the Scotch industry September 11, 2025 Whisky Business: City AM’s monthly look at the world of whisky. The 1980s were a particularly dark time in the history of the Scotch whisky industry. Throughout the decade, around a third of all Scottish distilleries closed their doors as demand dried up. Even well-established players were caught in the slump. Distillers such as Carsebridge, also [...]
Iconic City of London building unveils three new art galleries September 10, 2025 One of the City of London’s iconic buildings has unveiled three new free-to-enter art exhibition spaces that will house 24 shows over the next year. The No.1 Poultry building between Bank and St Paul’s has partnered with arts charity Hypha Studios and the Cheapside Business Alliance to turn currently unused offices into gallery space. Some [...]
Why Fairgame London is better than Flight Club and Electric Shuffle September 10, 2025 The Fairgame London gaming arcade has opened in St Paul’s Admittedly ‘adult play’ sounds like the description on the side of a lube bottle, but lately it’s been pertaining to another type of fun: the idea of adults acting like children. Soft play centres around the country are opening up for adults-only nights and zoos [...]
9 amazing things to do in London this September (while the sun still shines) September 9, 2025 Delightfully, the good weather seems to be turning into an Indian Summer, with the promise of balmy September evenings as the nights draw in. There are still plenty of ways to enjoy being outdoors this month, as the capital eeks the last out of what has been one of the best summers of recent years. [...]
Central London Alliance comments on tube strikes September 9, 2025 | City Talk Central London Alliance, a Community Interest Company, was founded because of the perceived lack of concern, relative silence and failure to consider the urgency of actions to mitigate the disastrous impact of COVID-19, lockdown and the government’s reaction to these. The original purpose of Central London Alliance (CLA) was to support a sustainable, economic recovery [...]
Forget Seville, Cordoba is the real jewel of Southern Spain September 8, 2025 The first thing you notice about Cordoba in spring is the smell. When the orange trees that line the streets and the jasmines that climb the walls blossom, the whole city fills with their sultry fragrance. The historic centre of Cordoba is a Unesco world heritage site that bears memories of its Roman, Moorish and [...]