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City reflected in Hamilton Arts Week

Hamilton Arts Council’s annual cultural celebration returns for 2025 with 12 signature events from June 3-12 that showcase the diversity, creativity, and stories of our city. Hamilton is an arts town and that is never more true than during Hamilton Arts Week, taking place across the city…
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East-end staple Rankin’s Bar & Grill has served its last pint

Hamilton landmark served patrons for 45 years, surviving as a three-generation family business that, over 87 years, evolved from a china shop to a snack bar to a classic neighbourhood restaurant. The TV classic Cheers has been in the news recently following the death of George Wendt, who…
City Life

Canada is facing a new economic era

Our country is at a turning point, and Hamilton could be a big winner – if we believe and prepare. Not even the most jaded observer could have predicted just how quickly the political situation would deteriorate in the United States after the election of Donald Trump to…
Arts + Culture

PRIDE: Trans artist Ardyn Gibbs is living in the light

Their work explores the pleasures, resilience and secrets of the queer experience through holograms, lenticular prints, digital renderings, and the reflective distortions of chrome. I can’t help but think of holograms as the neon-retro dreams of a future that never came, which made my first encounter with Ardyn…
Food + Drink

ON THE MENU: WHAT’S OPENED AND CLOSED ON THE LOCAL RESTAURANT SCENE

Here's a list of what has come, gone and changed in Hamilton and Burlington in May. Launched Bim’s Kusina (184 King St. E., Hamilton)What began as a small birria taco business with a food truck, then a physical location in Burlington last summer, has quickly expanded to a…
Arts + Culture

Piindigen: Amplifying once-excluded theatre voices

For two years, Theatre Aquarius’s Indigenous Piindigen program has actively sought out traditionally unheard storytellers to teach and showcase their work. The culmination of this year's program is being presented Saturday as part of the Brave New Works Festival. The Brave New Works Festival, Theatre Aquarius’ annual…
City Life

PRIDE: A royal legacy for Rainbow Kings and Queens

More than 350 LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers from eight African countries have settled in Hamilton for a life of safety, acceptance and peace and are building of their own community. Herbert Ddiba can’t quite recall how he came up with the name Rainbow Kings and Queens. He knew he…
Arts + Culture

INCITE FOUNDATION: Music Makers

The incite Foundation for the Arts supports the work of the Great Lakes Music Makers and the Ancaster Music Society. The incite Foundation for the Arts has contributed more than $9 million to 50 Hamilton-area organizations, through grants from $2,500 to $300,000, since it was founded in 2011. It…
City Life

Hounds of Hamilton

We need a big dose of dogs these days so HAMILTON CITY Magazine is launching a new feature to celebrate the city's canines. Send in your dogs! Is there any better escape from the relentless news cycle, doom scrolling and polarizing politics, and any simpler…
City Life

McMaster University will un-pave a parking lot and return it to paradise

Campus will undergo a profound transformation over the next decade as it renaturalizes west side, adds more housing and creates entry gateways. A vision to transform the McMaster University campus over the next decade includes the renaturalization of what are large parking lots on the west side of…
City Life

FOR THE LOVE OF HAMILTON

This regular feature highlights people from all walks of life who have embraced Hamilton as their new home. LOHIFA POGOSON ACKER is a consultant, business owner, hair artist, and speaker dedicated to community empowerment. Born in Lagos, Nigeria and raised on three continents, she is known for her…

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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

We need a big dose of dogs these days so HAMILTON CITY Magazine is launching a new feature to celebrate the city's canines. Send in your dogs! Is there any better escape from the relentless news cycle, doom scrolling and polarizing politics, and any simpler…
HCC
Hamilton music Collective
City Life

YHM to Where?

Where you can fly from Hamilton is always changing. Porter is now flying to four Canadian cities and the airport has just unveiled its renovations. Looking to travel more within Canada this year? Who isn’t? That just got a little easier for Hamilton residents, and fans of the…
Food + Drink

Local brewers are tackling tariffs one pint at a time

Hamilton and Burlington are home to thriving craft breweries that are taking on the U.S. trade war by doubling down on local. If there’s one Canadian industry that understands the importance of supporting local, it’s craft brewing.  For more than four decades since the days when Labatt…
City Life

Finding friends over Queer Coffee

The monthly social mixer in a downtown coffee house brews connections in the city’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community. At Queer Coffee Hamilton, the buzz comes from both the coffee and the conversations.   Queer Coffee is a monthly social mixer at Relay Coffee Roasters on King William Street that started in…
City Life

Canada is facing a new economic era

Our country is at a turning point, and Hamilton could be a big winner – if we believe and prepare. Not even the most jaded observer could have predicted just how quickly the political situation would deteriorate in the United States after the election of Donald Trump to…
Food + Drink

East-end staple Rankin’s Bar & Grill has served its last pint

Hamilton landmark served patrons for 45 years, surviving as a three-generation family business that, over 87 years, evolved from a china shop to a snack bar to a classic neighbourhood restaurant. The TV classic Cheers has been in the news recently following the death of George Wendt, who…
Food + Drink

ON THE MENU: WHAT’S OPENED AND CLOSED ON THE LOCAL RESTAURANT SCENE

Here's a list of what has come, gone and changed in Hamilton and Burlington in May. Launched Bim’s Kusina (184 King St. E., Hamilton)What began as a small birria taco business with a food truck, then a physical location in Burlington last summer, has quickly expanded to a…
City Life

PRIDE: A royal legacy for Rainbow Kings and Queens

More than 350 LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers from eight African countries have settled in Hamilton for a life of safety, acceptance and peace and are building of their own community. Herbert Ddiba can’t quite recall how he came up with the name Rainbow Kings and Queens. He knew he…