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Claudio Aprile is chef of the world

By Diane Galambos
Renowned Canadian chef has translated his upbringing in Uruguay, his Italian heritage and his travels far and wide into his own food journey. If, as Julia Child says, “people who love to eat are always the best people,” what can we say about the talented people who prepare…
Arts + Culture

Women Fully Clothed a hot commodity in Hamilton

By Meredith MacLeod
Comedic veterans Jayne Eastwood, Robin Duke, Kathryn Greenwood and Teresa Pavlinek have sold out theatres all over North America, including two upcoming shows at Theatre Aquarius. Tickets remain for a third performance. When the quartet who make up Women Fully Clothed talked about getting back to the…
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Marisa Mariella is on a good food mission

By Meredith MacLeod
Stoney Creek resident and Cable 14 host is joining HAMILTON CITY Magazine to share her passion for cooking, mental health and wellness. Food advocate and blogger Marisa Mariella is bringing together three of her passions – food, teaching and mental wellness – in new…
Arts + Culture

Musical revue promises theatre’s great songs

By Allison M. Jones
Curtain Call Performing Arts Company’s newest Passion Project is its upcoming Musical Concert at Gasworks featuring seven performers. For one weekend only, Curtain Call Performing Arts Company will bring together seven performers to celebrate “beloved musical theatre classics and contemporary showstoppers,” from Wicked, Dear Evan Hansen, Beetlejuice, Jesus…
Arts + Culture

New season at Aquarius features Frozen and plenty of Canada

By Meredith MacLeod
Disney musical, Agatha Christie mystery, comedy set in Hamilton, Gen X mashup, and play based on music of The Tragically Hip make up the 2025-2026 lineup. Theatre Aquarius’s next season seems tailor made for the buy Canadian sentiment that is surging right now in the face of U.S.
City Life

Hounds of Hamilton: Dogs are the stars at Fetching Studios

By Meredith MacLeod
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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Compass is navigating the food fight

By Meredith MacLeod
Compass Community Health Centre in Hamilton’s North End is battling food insecurity through a range of programs targeting vulnerable populations. In vulnerable communities, food security is fundamental to health, family well-being and community-building, and in the North End of Hamilton, all roads lead to Compass Community Health Centre. …
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Business friends are Pinch hitters

By Stephen Near
The astonishing rise of Hamilton’s most out-of-the-box eatery is a story of a community rallying – twice – around owners Stefani Dubbeldam and Amanda Wright. Sitting with small business owners Stefani Dubbeldam and Amanda Wright, surrounded by greenery and the scent of fresh-baked cookies, it’s easy to be…
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No reservations about Fully Committed

By Meredith MacLeod
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Hamilton photographer earns third deep dive world record

By Meredith MacLeod
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Hamilton’s Le Tambour partners with hot Niagara restaurant on sold-out meal

By Vanessa Green
City Life

For the Love of Hamilton

By Meredith MacLeod

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

By Suzanne Zandbergen
Here's a list of what has come, gone and changed in Hamilton and Burlington in September. Launched & opening soon AlBash Shawarma (197 Locke St. S., Hamilton) Locke Street is the lucky recipient of a new quick lunch spot that will tempt your tastebuds with mouthwatering shawarma and…
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Theatre Aquarius scores with King James

By Meredith MacLeod
This production explores male friendship through the lens of basketball’s larger-than-life LeBron James and the triumph and heartbreak of being a diehard sports fan. It's not necessary to be a basketball devotee in order to enjoy Theatre Aquarius’s debut production of the season, but it sure helps to…
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In our bones: Exploring where memories begin

By Jessica Rose
Are human beings born with memories? A new collection of essays by pediatric clinical geneticist Margaret Nowaczyk probes her fascination with the mystery of inherited awareness – what she calls marrow memory. On a dreary afternoon more than two decades ago, Margaret Nowaczyk received the flimsy airmail envelope…
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Artist Ravinder Ruprai is taking on trauma

By Stephanie Vegh
She explores her own cancer diagnosis, loss of loved ones, racism, pain, and global migration through her fibre and fabric art works. I visited Ravinder Ruprai’s short-term studio nestled in an idyllic Strathcona garden where two massive box frames awaited their transformation. One loomed over us on its…
City Life

These cafés serve fix-it help for broken household items

By Jason Allen
Volunteer-run repair cafés tackle our throwaway culture by taking goods destined for the landfill and giving them new life. They are even teaching people how to fix their own stuff. A few years ago, thanks to my eclectic Instagram account, I was approached by Green Venture about…
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Local companies combine forces on bold, gender-bending Hamlet

By Allison M. Jones
Same Boat and Rook’s Theatre stage a radical new look at the Shakespeare classic in a North End historic gem. Local indie companies Same Boat and Rook's Theatre have collaborated on an immersive, gender-bent production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which will open for a limited run on Sept.
City Life

Mayor Andrea Horwath urges Hamiltonians to spend time downtown

By Meredith MacLeod
At a mayor’s breakfast event hosted by the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, she delivered a positive but cautionary progress report on homelessness, development and growth. A new deal for the lease of the Hamilton International Airport, a move to speed up approvals for development applications in the…
City Life

City reaches $400M deal with airport operators

By HCM
The agreement with Tradeport International Corporation will see the company manage the John C. Munro International Airport for 49 years. The City of Hamilton and the operators of the Hamilton International Airport have reached a 49-year deal that will see $400 million invested in the Mount Hope…
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