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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The Motive and The Cue, National Theatre, review: Mark Gatiss is the best bit

May 3, 2023

The Motive and The Cue review and star rating: ★★★ If the London theatre scene has an A-List, a good chunk of that list compromises the cast and crew of The Motive and The Cue. Written by Harry Potter & The Cursed Child’s Jack Thorne, directed by the titan that is Sam Mendes, and starring [...]
Printworks: London has the power to bring us back, says founder

May 2, 2023

Printworks, one of London’s most important cultural venues, closed yesterday. Its foundertells Adam Bloodworth his hopes for the future It’s not an exaggeration to say there is nothing like Printworks. For music fans, the venue feels Cathedral-like, with its towering ceilings, but also because of the relationship people have with the building. In the 6,000-capacity [...]
Printworks: London nightlife venue to become offices as new plans revealed

April 28, 2023

The Printworks London nightlife and culture venue in Canada Water is to become a net-zero office space, new architectural plans have revealed. British Land, the commercial property owners behind Printworks, have unveiled an ambitious repurposing project for the land, which was formerly a printing press, and is the last major unconverted industrial building in central [...]
May bank holidays: Brits believe this May will be the best ever – new data

April 28, 2023

Almost a third of Brits have booked themselves up with plans for every weekend in May, which has three bank holidays this year, as they gear up for what they believe will be the best May weekend ever. A new survey has revealed 28 per cent of Brits haven’t got a free May weekend, as [...]
Jerry Springer’s London: Born in Highgate Tube station during WWII

April 27, 2023

It seems incongruous that Jerry Springer, legendary US talk show host, was British-born during the Second World War. But Springer, who has died aged 79, lived his first days in a subterranean war bunker during German bombing. He was born in Highgate Tube station, which had been refashioned as a bomb shelter as many of [...]
Jerry Springer dead: London born legendary talk show host dead at 79

April 27, 2023

Jerry Springer has died aged 79. The London-born American talk show host became famous in the 1990s for his eponymous talk show where families would go in front of a studio audience to discuss their issues live. Springer would end each show with an inspirational word of wisdom about how we live our lives. The [...]
How to blow up a Pipeline review: Vital but underdeveloped climate drama

April 27, 2023

Headlines about how doomed we all are due to climate change have sadly started to have less of an impact, as we all get more fatigued by the endless bad news. Thankfully, creatives have been trying to make the same points in different ways. Netflix satire Don’t Look Up imagined the life of a beleaguered [...]
I tried living like the King ahead of the Coronation – was it worth it?

April 27, 2023

St James’s tailors dress King Charles. Ahead of the Coronation, our man Adam Bloodworth went to find out whether living like a King is all it’s cracked up to be Rumour has it that princes William and Harry used to go to St James’s barbers Truefitt & Hill for their haircuts. They were taken there [...]
King’s Coronation: Where to watch in London, from pubs to parks

April 26, 2023

Break out the bunting – it’s time to decide how you’ll be celebrating the King’s Coronation. Here are some tips, from long lunches to the pub The Coronation is almost within touching distance, with just over a week until the biggest royal celebration since the Platinum Jubilee. If you haven’t nailed down your plans yet, [...]
Fans slam ‘disgraceful’ Coronation concert ticket chaos, leaving thousands disappointed

April 26, 2023

Tickets for the Coronation concert went on sale yesterday but the ticketing system meant many people who thought they have bagged tickets were later told they actually hadn’t. The Coronation concert takes places on Sunday 7 May with Lionel Ritchie, Take That, Katy Perry and opera singer Andrea Bocelli some of the names performing. An [...]

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