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Shining a spotlight on gritLIT

Whether you love to read and talk about books, are a successful author, or are aspiring to publish your first work, Hamilton’s Readers and Writers Festival has something for you. gritLIT is an opportunity to not only celebrate great books and national and local authors, it’s a chance…
Arts + Culture

Hamilton native dishes up dream role in musical Waitress

Julia McLellan is the lead in a show about female friendship, resilience, and dreams that plays at Theatre Aquarius from April 30 to May 17. Hamilton native Julia McLellan is realizing her dream of taking on the role of Jenna in Waitress in what is a homecoming…
Arts + Culture

Dance festival aims to lift up the art form in Hamilton

This weekend’s Here&Now by Hamilton contemporary dance company Aeris Körper will feature established choreographed works, alongside works in development. One of Hamilton’s only festivals dedicated to dance is taking the stage at L.R. Wilson Hall at McMaster University this weekend.  Aeris Körper, the Hamilton contemporary dance company, is…
Arts + Culture

All-male show brings new era of The Golden Girls

More than 30 years after the last show aired. sassy quartet is back as wise-cracking best friends once again. Golden Girls: The Laughs Continues comes to Hamilton April 29. Vince Kelley was born to be a Golden Girl. Well, he was born the same year – 1985 –…
Food + Drink

Cheap eats

These Hamilton restaurants and takeout joints – most of them longtime institutions – prove that in the lower city and the Mountain, paying less can be super satisfying. Keeping our bellies full feels like a rich man’s game these days. Grocery prices are through the roof, and take-out…
City Life

Hounds of Hamilton: Dogs are the stars at Fetching Studios

We need a big dose of dogs these days so HAMILTON CITY Magazine is a new feature to celebrate the city's canines. Send in your dogs! This story starts with a photogenic bulldog.  Soon after he moved to Hamilton in 2020, a neighbour who breeds bulldogs…
Food + Drink

Cuisine in The Creek

Stoney Creek offers an array of dining options, from pubs, sushi and pasta in Old Town along King Street to iconic slab pizza, Memphis BBQ, authentic Mexican and fine dining from one end to the other. From roots in the late 1700s, and designations such as township, town…
Arts + Culture

HAMILTON READS

Maxie Dara is now working on the second installment of her modern-day grim reaper tale that includes definite Hamilton vibes. Kathy Valence likes things boring and predictable. She’s mid-divorce, pregnant with her ex’s baby, and is terrified she doesn’t have what it takes to be a mom.
Food + Drink

Easy Kitchen with Marisa Mariella

The Stoney Creek resident, food blogger and Cable 14 host is joining HAMILTON CITY Magazine to share her favourite recipes. Once a month, we'll add a video here with mouth-watering recipes that will dazzle your family and friends! My all-time…
Made in Hamilton

Sharing the LRT goldmine

Pilot project aims to provide an alternative future for Hamilton’s transit corridor, one that includes affordable housing alongside upscale high-rises. A land speculation bonanza is underway along Hamilton’s King and Main streets triggered chiefly by the largest infrastructure project in the city’s history, the $3.4-billion light rail transit…
City Life

Embracing the water

The CN rail yard on the west harbour has to move in order to realize Hamilton’s full potential as a true waterfront city.  Hamilton is a city on water. The harbour has been a source of commerce and recreation for the entire life of the community, and…

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Happening Now

THINGS TO DO IN HAMILTON, BURLINGTON

We are spoiled for things to see and do in #HamOnt and #BurlOn. HAMILTON CITY Magazine helps you keep up with it all. Think of us as your plugged-in friend who knows all the cool stuff happening around town! Get out and enjoy – and tell them HCM sent you!
City Life

Hounds of Hamilton: Dogs are the stars at Fetching Studios

We need a big dose of dogs these days so HAMILTON CITY Magazine is a new feature to celebrate the city's canines. Send in your dogs! This story starts with a photogenic bulldog.  Soon after he moved to Hamilton in 2020, a neighbour who breeds bulldogs…
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Food + Drink

Cheap eats

These Hamilton restaurants and takeout joints – most of them longtime institutions – prove that in the lower city and the Mountain, paying less can be super satisfying. Keeping our bellies full feels like a rich man’s game these days. Grocery prices are through the roof, and take-out…
Arts + Culture

All-male show brings new era of The Golden Girls

More than 30 years after the last show aired. sassy quartet is back as wise-cracking best friends once again. Golden Girls: The Laughs Continues comes to Hamilton April 29. Vince Kelley was born to be a Golden Girl. Well, he was born the same year – 1985 –…
Arts + Culture

Dance festival aims to lift up the art form in Hamilton

This weekend’s Here&Now by Hamilton contemporary dance company Aeris Körper will feature established choreographed works, alongside works in development. One of Hamilton’s only festivals dedicated to dance is taking the stage at L.R. Wilson Hall at McMaster University this weekend.  Aeris Körper, the Hamilton contemporary dance company, is…
Arts + Culture

Hamilton native dishes up dream role in musical Waitress

Julia McLellan is the lead in a show about female friendship, resilience, and dreams that plays at Theatre Aquarius from April 30 to May 17. Hamilton native Julia McLellan is realizing her dream of taking on the role of Jenna in Waitress in what is a homecoming…
Arts + Culture

Local theatre options are flourishing in April

Feminist theatre company’s Fertility, musical revue by Hamilton Mountain youth theatre, and Canadian comedy Buying the Moose are fantastic options this weekend. April marks the burgeoning of new growth in local theatre options that will continue on into May. Among them is the world premiere run of a…
Food + Drink

Cuisine in The Creek

Stoney Creek offers an array of dining options, from pubs, sushi and pasta in Old Town along King Street to iconic slab pizza, Memphis BBQ, authentic Mexican and fine dining from one end to the other. From roots in the late 1700s, and designations such as township, town…
Arts + Culture

REVIEW: Bluebirds soars at Theatre Burlington

Canadian play explores the experiences of frontline nurses in World War I in a thought-provoking, evocative, and emotional way. On stage now at Theatre Burlington is the evocative play Bluebirds, a deeply thoughtful, poignant, and eminently Canadian story performed by three talented actors embodying the fears, aspirations and…