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REVIEW: Waitress is a sweet slice of musical theatre

By Meredith MacLeod
Theatre Aquarius’s season close-out production takes place in Joe’s Pie Diner where Jenna, played by Hamilton native Julia McLellan, escapes her loveless marriage by creating and baking desserts and dreaming of a new start. It runs until May 18. Waitress serves strong performances, great music, a…
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REVIEW: Sequence is a clever, challenging piece of theatre

By Allison M. Jones
Food + Drink

ElderCamp cooks up homemade nostalgia

By Jessica Rose
City Life

Hounds of Hamilton: Dogs are the stars at Fetching Studios

By Meredith MacLeod
Food + Drink

Cuisine in The Creek

By Diane Galambos

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Arts + Culture

Musical incubator at Theatre Aquarius announces first cohort of productions

By HCM
The National Centre for New Musicals will provide mentorship and consultation to the Canadian composers, lyricists, book writers and theatre artists behind five new musical works. The National Centre for New Musicals (NCNM) at Theatre Aquarius has announced the first cohort of five productions that have been selected…
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Grief, gardening and growing up

By Allison M. Jones
Village Theatre Waterdown presents Bloom, a play about innocence, hope and friendship, and a production where newer performers are cultivating their craft. It’s fitting that Village Theatre Waterdown’s spring production is titled Bloom, in more ways than one. The play follows a grieving teenager who, after acting out…
Arts + Culture

Peter Mansbridge celebrates the fascinating, critical jobs Canadians do

By Meredith MacLeod
The former anchor of CBC News’ The National and co-author of How Canada Works was a special guest of Hamilton’s gritLIT festival. The man who once had one of the most visible jobs in the country is fascinated by the invisible and unsung jobs that are the backbone…
Food + Drink

Rebranded Bardō offering ingredients for success

By Diane Galambos
The former Earth to Table Bread Bars on Locke and James streets have a new name and a new look but remain committed to good food. A trivial casualty of the pandemic was that my Bread Bar James brunch review never saw the light of day. Restaurants faced…
Arts + Culture

Shining the stage lights on Tom Wilson’s story

By Kerry Doole
The world premiere of Beautiful Scars, a musical adaptation of the musician and artist's 2017 memoir, is about creating understanding and has required a deep level of trust and creative collaboration, he says. The journey has been a long and winding road, but the world premiere of Beautiful…
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Taking on the hits of Motown

By Janice Thiessen
Theatre Ancaster’s Mainstage tribute concert series will feature local blues icon Harrison Kennedy. Kicking off the 2024 Mainstage tribute concert series for Theatre Ancaster is the Music of Motown, featuring local legend Harrison Kennedy.  According to Colin Lapsley, the executive director of the Ancaster Memorial Arts Centre and…
Food + Drink

The King of restaurant row

By Diane Galambos
The east-west King William Street is a historically significant street in the city and is now one of Hamilton’s most important dining districts. I visit the King William Street dining district often. It has much to offer and triggers fond memories. Readers of a certain age will recall…
Food + Drink

Generations of fabulous food

By Helen Powers
These Hamilton-born food empires – all founded by immigrants who arrived in the post-war boom – are now iconic fixtures of this city’s past and present. After World War II, many European families immigrated to Hamilton and broadened the city culturally. Statistically, one of the peak years for…
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