By: Adam Bloodworth

Features Journalist Adam Bloodworth is the Deputy Life&Style Editor at City AM. He has served in the role since 2022, writing and commissioning culture and lifestyle features for the newspaper and website. The Life&Style section covers film, TV, music, theatre, things to do in London and features that examine the ways Londoners live their lives. He also serves as Deputy Editor for City AM The Magazine, writing and commissioning for the quarterly luxury lifestyle product distributed by hand around the capital. He has been interviewed by the BBC News at 10, BBC Scotland, BBC Three Counties Radio and can be found on X and LinkedIn.

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Scale up investor: Hiring trans women like me isn’t just right – it’s good for business

July 3, 2023

Reece Tomlinson, founder of investment firm Saône Capital, on how investing in trans and non-binary people is good for business, as people from different backgrounds have different ideas and approaches “When you look at underrepresented founders as a whole, they’re actually the majority of founders,” says Reece Tomlinson, trans CEO and founder of the Saône [...]
A Strange Loop, Barbican, review: New York’s smash hit doesn’t land in London

June 29, 2023

A Strange Loop review and star rating: ★★★ A Strange Loop won every Best Musical award in New York, and was nominated for 11 Tony Awards. It was a New York Times Critics’ Pick and won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; unusual for a musical, the accolade was previously taken by Hamilton. The musical [...]
Inside Wimbledon’s first ever official off-court fashion range

June 29, 2023

“There are worse places to work,” jokes David Hewitt, Wimbledon’s head of retail. We’re on Zoom and behind Hewitt’s head there is a smart grid of green rectangles, the outside courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club that are primed and ready for play, days away from the start of the 2023 [...]
London Pride Month: LGBTQ business leaders on being closeted in the City

June 27, 2023

In the aftermath of London Pride Month, City A.M. hears from top City of London CEOs about being closested -and out – in the City, as well as the ways all of us can be better allies. You can watch our video series on YouTube For many City of London workers, being LGBTQ still means [...]
Train travel in Europe: London to Italy in a day with Byway Travel

June 26, 2023

To Tuscany by train? It’s a doddle, finds Adam Bloodworth, who trains it from London with Byway Travel, train travel in Europe specialists LONDON TO TUSCANY TRAIN: Destination: a friend’s wedding in Tuscany. How else other than to fly? Well, what about this: lunch in Paris, then dinner in Italy, all on the same day, and all [...]
Learning Lisbon’s foodie secrets with the Jamie Oliver of Portugal

June 26, 2023

As new Portuguese restaurant Joia opens in London, Adam Bloodworth visits Lisbon to taste its inspiration Unless you’ve spent the last decade hiding underneath a yellow tram, you will have noticed that Portugal’s capital Lisbon has become the European city du jour lately. Everyone in your office has a tip for the best pastel de nata, the smartest [...]
Elton John Glastonbury recap: Better than we could ever have hoped

June 25, 2023

Elton John at Glastonbury review and star rating: ★★★★★ Of course he chose mostly unknown special guests: he was the star. At Glastonbury, Elton John was more mesmerising and emotionally-charged than even his fans who’d camped out at the front of the Pyramid Stage since 4am could have hoped. The veteran rocker sounded better than [...]
Mrs Doubtfire musical, review: As funny and heart-warming as the movie

June 22, 2023

Mrs Doubtfire musical review and star rating: ★★★★ Doing a version of Mrs Doubtfire for the stage sounds like a terrible idea. On top of the gut feeling – do we really need this – there are criticisms levelled by some in the trans community, arguing that the last thing we need is another man dressing up as [...]
Diva exhibition at the V&A, review: a serious celebration of icons

June 22, 2023

If the word ‘diva’ still holds any negative connotations, then those notions are scrapped wholeheartedly by the V&A’s new Diva exhibition, the first of its kind in the world. A kaleidoscopic collection of outfits that has taken five years to bring together, the exhibition subverts the idea that a diva is someone who demands bottles of champagne [...]
Inside the National Portrait Gallery’s smart £41million refurbishment

June 22, 2023

Finally, there’s a proper entrance! The National Portrait Gallery, closed for refurbishments since 2020, reopened this week. £35 million in investment has bought it a smart new look, and a genuine push for diversity. There are new galleries and social spaces, but first, the doors. The Portrait Gallery’s pokey side-door entrance on Charing Cross Road [...]

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