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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Crystal Cruises announces new ships and significant expansion plans

July 29, 2023

Heritage cruise company Crystal Cruises has announced a significant expansion to their operation in the form of four new ships. Two expedition cruise ships and two classic ships are due by 2029, hopefully earlier, Christina Levis, CEO of A&K Travel Group said. “Our aim is to have four new builds by the end of 2029. [...]
The Crown Jewels play, review: Even Al Murray’s Pub Landlord can’t save this mess

July 28, 2023

The Crown Jewels review and star rating: ★★ Al Murray made a career out of playing a working class pub landlord, but it turns out he’s funnier, and certainly more natural, playing a Hooray Henry. In The Crown Jewels Murray is King Charles II, and he’s royally good at it, gesticulating about the place and [...]
How Secret Garden Party outshines all other UK music festivals, including Glastonbury

July 27, 2023

Die-hard festival fans pretend rain doesn’t ruin their fun – they pretend that they enjoy sliding around in mud – but when the cameras stop filming, we all know they retreat to huddle in embryonic balls in their tents like the rest of us miserable British campers. On Saturday, for a few hours, the incessant [...]
Sinead O’Connor dead: Irish legend dies after long mental health battle

July 26, 2023

The Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has died after a long battle with her mental health. O’Connor was 56 and will be remembered most fondly for her 1990 cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U. She retired from the music industry in 2021, having released 10 studio albums, with one more to come posthumously, called No [...]
The Rosarium is Waterloo’s newest restaurant

July 26, 2023

Waterloo Station isn’t typically somewhere you’d think to go for dinner, but a new restaurant just opened in the bowels of the station is rethinking the terminus in culinary terms. Go down the stairs opposite the sweeping main entrance past where the Eurostar used to be and a couple of hundred metres underneath the platforms [...]
5 amazing things to do in London this weekend

July 21, 2023

Whatever your vibe, here are some amazing things to do in London this weekend, whether you’ll be cheering on England in the World Cup or dancing at a music festival. IT’S THE WOMEN’S WORLD CUP! The Women’s World Cup kicks off today, but England aren’t playing until 10.30am on Saturday morning. It’s a bit early [...]
Adem is the new London hair salon you have to try

July 21, 2023

A new in Belgravia hair salon inspired by nature and Turkish oils is top draw, finds Adam Bloodworth Posh hair salons are to be Belgravia what posh restaurants are to Mayfair. So how do you stand out in a crowded market? Forget the pomp and ceremony and just do a darn good haircut – or [...]
I tried Russell Brand’s alcohol free festival – it changed my outlook for good

July 20, 2023

“One more time? How about ten more times? Let’s all get high!” declares a sober Russell Brand on the main stage at his Community Festival, conducting a breathing exercise to a crowd of thousands which is so mind-bending that people frequently collapse. Medics are on hand as Brand stands centre stage. Alongside him is the [...]
Shiro restaurant on Broadgate Circle is for sushi done properly

July 20, 2023

Finally, sushi that isn’t pretentious, high street or needlessly expensive, finds Adam Bloodworth Finally, new Broadgate Circle opening Shiro is somewhere to explore sushi as a culinary passion. Sushi is hard to get into in London. In West London it is sold for extortionate prices and dressed up in all sorts of fancy ways in [...]
Why Barbenheimer is actually about masculinity

July 20, 2023

Both Barbie and Oppenheimer offer revealing male character studies, says Adam Bloodworth You wouldn’t think it from all the beaming photos of Margot Robbie plastered about the place, but ‘Barbenheimer’ has actually ended up sending some pretty prescient messages about masculinity, asking questions about what it’s like to be a man today. In case you’ve [...]

Why sport fans got bored of influencers and forced brands into a mind shift

Why sport fans got bored of influencers and forced brands into a mind shift

House of the Dragon’s Abubakar Salim dreams of Kenyan kebabs for his last supper

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