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Paul McCartney to open TD Coliseum

By HCM
The legendary performer will be the first concert at Hamilton’s renovated downtown arena on Nov. 21. The legendary Paul McCartney will be the opening act at Hamilton’s TD Coliseum on Nov. 21. He will make a stop in the city as part of his Got Back Tour, which…
Arts + Culture

Vive la Hamilton: A new era for the HPO

By Jamie Tennant
At 29, Paris-born James Kahane is the 10th music director of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. He wants you to know that he finds Hamilton artistically inspiring and that classical musicians party more than you might think. James Kahane grew up in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Arts + Culture

Hamilton Fringe preview: 55 plays and 350 performances

By Allison M. Jones
Become an indie theatre buff and an arts benefactor in your own backyard from July 16 to 27. Calling itself “the city's biggest, boldest 12-day arts festival,” the 2025 Hamilton Fringe Festival will run from July 16 to 27 and feature 55 plays in a schedule of more…
Arts + Culture

Music of the summer

By HCM
Check out our photo gallery from the Sound of Music in Burlington, It's Your Festival, and the Brott Music Festival in Hamilton. Our music issue – Summer 2025 – is almost out! Photos by Bob Hatcher Click on any image for a full-sized slideshow Burlington's…
City Life

BRUCE TRAIL: A walk in the wilderness

By Meredith MacLeod
The dream for the Bruce Trail along the Niagara Escarpment was born in Hamilton and almost 60 years after it was officially formed, the Dundas-based Bruce Trail Conservancy is ramping up its ambition to own the entire 900-kilometre route and a corridor of nature around it. “Nature is…
Food + Drink

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 June. Launched Alei Kitchen (1400 Plains Rd. E., Burlington)Taste the fire-kissed flavours of Miao culture with a modern twist at this newly opened Chinese eatery on Plains Road at Brant. Make sure to…
Arts + Culture

THE PLAYLIST

By Dylan Hudecki
Dylan Hudecki is a Canadian indie-rock vet having played in many different bands, including By Divine Right, Cowlick, Slow Beach and The Dill. He’s a proud Hamiltonian who covers local album releases for HAMILTON CITY Magazine. Drew Smith – Leaf by Leaf After more than a…
City Life

Downtown arena will be TD Coliseum

By Meredith MacLeod
Oak View Group announced a multi-year naming rights deal Wednesday, while also revealing that an AHL hockey team will be part of the tenant mix beginning in September 2026. Hamilton’s coliseum is back. Just minutes after the official announcement on Wednesday morning that the city’s downtown arena will…
Made in Hamilton

Peter Lazar: The accidental tech entrepreneur

By Vanessa Green
The silent partner in Maipai jumped in when the Barton Street pizza joint had to pivot to takeout in the pandemic. The result, a platform called Pavement, is now providing a buy Canadian solution to ordering in. Buy Canadian has never felt more urgent.  Many of us are…
City Life

YHM to Where?

By Sherri Telenko
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…
City Life

Hounds of Hamilton

By Meredith MacLeod
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

CITY VIEW: From box office to boss

By Meredith MacLeod
Food + Drink

Power Pizza is doing things differently

By Suzanne Zandbergen
City Life

FOR THE LOVE OF HAMILTON

By Meredith MacLeod
City Life

The Canada Truck is a national tribute

By Meredith MacLeod

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The days of dahlias

By Jason Allen
Cut flowers are a big trend in gardening this year and dahlias provide a ton of diversity is size and form and are easy to grow. Summer is very much here. After a scorching week in May, a lot of people with green (or not so green) thumbs…
Arts + Culture

Hamilton Arts Week kicks off June 5

By Sarah Jessica Rintjema
Now celebrating 10 years, the weeklong arts festival by the Hamilton Arts Council will feature 13 signature events and a specialized presentation stream dedicated to Indigenous themes, artists and audiences. The Hamilton Arts Council officially celebrates a decade of its annual Hamilton Arts Week celebration in 2024, a…
City Life

A festival of festivals

By Carlye Morrow-Jackson
Hamilton is a city of festivals, meaning you can spend each of your summer weekends taking in all the city – and Burlington! – has to offer. When someone asks what you’re doing on the weekend any time this summer, just say “Hamilton.” Festival season is…
City Life

‘Bold’ YMCA campaign aims to double community impact

By Janice Thiessen
The Y Saves Lives targets raising $25M for outreach programs, capital upgrades with matching funds donated by the Alinea Land Corporation. The Y Saves Lives campaign to raise $25 million over five years aims to double the number of people served by the YMCA in Hamilton, Burlington, and…
City Life

From YHM to Where? Experience Hamilton to Dublin

By Sherri Telenko
It’s easy to connect to Ireland through Iceland from Steeltown aboard PLAY Airlines. Dublin, Ireland is one of those cities I’m glad I spent 48 hours exploring. Last minute, I added it to a longer trip through the Emerald Island and didn’t regret it. Now, I want to…
City Life

Life in the City

By HCM
PHOTOS BY BRENT PERNIAC, DONNA WAXMAN AND GARY GREEN Broadcaster Annette Hamm and author Margaret Atwood at a gritLIT event at Theatre Aquarius, April 9. gritLit's Jessica Rose, author Margaret Atwood and Theatre Aquarius's Neal Miller at a gritLIT event at…
City Life

Learning for the (long) weekend: The power of Niagara Falls

By Sherri Telenko
Canada’s most famous attraction is an opportunity to get up close to the force of nature in adventurous, exciting and educational ways. Niagara Falls is where the power of nature meets the impact of innovation. If you haven’t been to the Falls recently, now might be the time…
City Life

The Cancer Assistance Program: There when needed

By Meredith MacLeod
For 30 years, Hamilton's CAP has been providing rides, medical equipment, prosthetics, nutritional supplements – and now an educational podcast – to patients who get a diagnosis they never hoped to hear. It’s a group no one ever wants to join.  But for Hamiltonians who learn…
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