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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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 [...]
South Pacific review: It’s shocking how contemporary this simmering musical feels 70 years on

August 5, 2022

Mid century American writer and lyricist combo Rodgers and Hammerstein are having a moment. A new experimental version of their most famous musical, Oklahoma!, played at the Young Vic earlier this summer, and now there’s a fresh version of South Pacific. Over 70 years since its 1949 Broadway premier it still feels shockingly contemporary in [...]
Phantom Peak review: £34 without any drinks? Call the sheriff – let’s shut this place down

August 5, 2022

Workers are spending more than seven pounds on a pint these days in London. I have been one of those people. Getting ripped off is tiring, but so many places rip you off in London that it feels impossible to keep track of what’s actually a good price, and what feels acceptable but actually isn’t. [...]
London cocktail bars for summer, from rooftops to new terraces

August 2, 2022

London cocktail bars are proudly dingy places. They’re described as “subterranean,” or “dimly-lit” or “dens.” That makes sense in the winter when we want to escape the bitterness with a biting smack of tequila on the tongue. But what about in summer, when we’re still after fine cocktails but with some more air to breathe, [...]
Women’s Euro final 2022: The best places to watch England vs Germany TODAY

July 31, 2022

Sing it with us… It’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s… could it be, finally? TODAY is the day, and we couldn’t be more excited. Kick off is at 5.00pm this afternoon and the game will be screened on BBC One, but of course our great city has plenty of options if you’d rather get [...]
Bad Jews review: An unnervingly realistic portrait of bad family communication

July 28, 2022

I’d estimate that at least half the audience at Bad Jews are having an uncomfortable flashback while they watch. Joshua Harman’s play, which first premiered Off-Broadway ten years ago, is unnervingly successful at capturing the impossibility of family communication, especially in light of grief. We’re stuck in Jonah’s confined New York City apartment, where, as [...]
The best new London rooftop bars to visit this summer

July 27, 2022

There’s nothing like a rooftop bar in summer – and while old favourites like Frank’s Cafe in Peckham, Radio in Covent Garden and The Boundary in Shoreditch are timeless places to drink, it’s always worth trying somewhere new. Here are a raft of fresh rooftops that have recently opened, all well worth raising a glass [...]
Fashion Freak Show review: This thrillscape of wild costumes will delight die-hards

July 21, 2022

Men gyrating in neon yellow tutus, dancers proudly sporting red tubing as the only cover to their modesty, others teasing the crowd wearing Shakespearean ruffs extending the length of the body. And how could we forget the conical bras? French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier’s vivid imagination is what helped him push past the crowd [...]

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