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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Beast review: A surprisingly straight story of man vs lion, and actually good

August 26, 2022

Let’s tackle the elephant – or should that be the lion? – in the room. The concept of new Idris Elba film Beast is flatly ridiculous. It features a deadly serious scene in which Elba fights a lion with his bare hands. It’s about a man-munching lion skulking around South Africa tearing limbs off locals [...]
Five million pounds of Banksy art is now free to see in the City

August 25, 2022

Walking into the Banksy exhibition at the new Red Eight Gallery at The Royal Exchange, the first artwork you’ll see is Morons, a depiction of an auction room upon which Banksy has scrawled: “I can’t believe you morons buy this shit.” Let’s just get this out of the way first: it’s blazingly ironic to host [...]
Two Ukrainian Plays, Finborough Theatre, review: Haunting tales from Ukraine

August 20, 2022

Some proceeds from Two Ukrainian Plays are donated toThe Voices of Children Charitable Foundation, a Ukrainian charity that provides urgently needed psychological and psychosocial support to children affected by the war in Ukraine. You can donate using this link above. The capital’s artistic organisations have been collaborating, producing and devising Ukrainian-themed work ever since Russia made [...]
Cruise review, Apollo Theatre: As fresh and relevant as It’s A Sin

August 18, 2022

Cruise is one of only a handful of West End openings this August, so thank goodness it’s a hit. A lucky few were already privy to how good Cruise is, with the show making headlines in May 2021 when it opened as the first post-pandemic West End production. “I knew that a solo show would [...]
Musicians share pasta horror stories ahead of London’s first pasta festival

August 17, 2022

Horrifying combinations, guests alerting dinner party hosts to chemical smells wafting from the kitchen and, yep, tomato ketchup. Italy is known as the food capital of the world but their most prized export is often butchered on these shores. Ahead of London’s first ever pasta festival, taking place this weekend, we’ve spoken to three of [...]
Things to do in London this August, as summer’s only just getting started

August 16, 2022

It’s raining and it feels like summer’s over – but trust us, August is just getting started. Get tickets to these new and unusual things to do in London this summer and remember, a third of the best season of the year still lies ahead. Prep the ice, ours is a Pimm’s. Camden Fringe Running [...]
British Airways announce new flight routes to Aruba and Guyana

August 14, 2022

British Airways has announced their first new long-haul flight routes since before the pandemic. The heritage British airline will serve Aruba and Guyana from late March 2023. BA last announced a new long-haul flight route in 2019 to Portland, Oregon, but due to Covid-19 that inaugural flight was delayed until June of this year. Both [...]
Feels Like June restaurant review: A summer rush of escapism in Canary Wharf

August 10, 2022

There’s nothing like being a tourist in your own city. Sometimes I go to Canary Wharf to pretend I’m in Downtown New York, with its vertiginous skyscrapers, wide thoroughfares that expand alongside water basins, and steakhouses and cocktail bars offering solace to tired bankers. New Canary Wharf restaurant Feels Like June sounds like the perfect [...]
Thames welcomes the Götheborg, the ocean’s largest wooden sailing ship

August 8, 2022

If you were along the Thames this morning, this might’ve noticed a giant pirate ship-esque vessel smoothly sliding through Tower Bridge. That was the Götheborg, passing through London on its way to Asia. It made quite the storm on social media, where workers and tourists stopped for a moment to film the pristine transition of [...]
Why Devon’s Salcombe is the new hotspot for holidaying Londoners

August 8, 2022

Apparently there’s been a raft of Londoners arriving in Salcombe absolutely fuming. Their Chelsea Tractors have been getting stuck down Devon’s tiny roads, and even the most expensive sat-navs are flummoxed by the windy-windy routes. What’s caused the spike in first-time visitors that seem to be getting lost, and were they aware before they set [...]

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