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Readers and writers: Your guide to gritLIT 2026

The literary festival offers five days of readings, panels, workshops, and social events that celebrate writers of all kinds and the readers who read them. For 22 years, the Hamilton-born gritLIT has celebrated established writers, helped new ones develop, and given readers a front-row seat to well over…
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World premiere shines a light on Canada, The Hip, and what home really means

It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken, opening April 22 at Theatre Aquarius, is about connection, love, and saying something that needs to be said. That spirit, and the spirit of Gord Downie, are in the rehearsal room as this show comes to life, say its stars.
Arts + Culture

REVIEW: Calendar Girls is balm for weary souls

Story of group of English women posing nude to raise money for their church is a nuanced exploration of aging, expectation, disappointment, and refusing to accept limitations. Binbrook Little Theatre’s production features brave performances and a solid focus on the story. Uplifting stories seem hard to find these…
Arts + Culture

New music venues: This booker is back

Brodie Schwendiman, operator of the late and beloved Casbah, is back booking music in a new downtown venue called Ridiculous, and other live-music locations in the region. 2025 was a rollercoaster ride of a year for Brodie Schwendiman. The music club operator and booker has played a crucial…
Food + Drink

Chef Matty Matheson: By the books

The celebrity chef has now made his mark in Hamilton, with elevated pub Iron Cow Public House at TD Coliseum. So what can we glean about him from the recipes and stories in his three cookbooks?  For months, his name was on the lips of Hamilton food…
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THE PLAYLIST

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. TV FREAKS  – Blue Genie (garage, punk rock) Devotion, distortion, and the…
Food + Drink

Getting out: Music & menus

If live tunes help your food taste better, here’s a list of places where the grub is as good as the setlist! With this issue being HAMILTON CITY Magazine’s music issue, it seemed fitting to round-up a bundle of local restaurants where you can see and enjoy some…
City Life

Hounds of Hamilton

We need a big dose of dogs these days so HAMILTON CITY Magazine's new feature celebrates the city's canines. Send in your dogs (and cats)! Escape the relentless news cycle, doom scrolling and polarizing politics, and find joy and laughter in pets. Hounds of Hamilton…

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Food + Drink

Compass is navigating the food fight

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. …
Arts + Culture

THE PLAYLIST

Dylan Hudecki is a Canadian indie-rock vet having played in many different bands, including By Divine Right, Cowlick and Junior Blue and The Dill. He’s a proud Hamiltonian covers local album releases for HAMILTON CITY Magazine. Golden Feather – Golden Feather Golden Feather’s self-titled debut album is…
City Life

CITY VIEW: Always in a pickle

Marty Strub's family has been in the pickle business since the 1920s and, since the family business was sold, he's been using his great-grandparents' recipe and methods to build his own venture. MARTY STRUB knows one thing very well: pickles. His family name still lives on jars of…
City Life

LIFE IN THE CITY

PHOTOS BY BRENT PERNIAC AND DONNA WAXMAN Click on an image for full-sized gallery Sandy Horne and Gordon Deppe of Burlington's The Spoons played The 80s Club with The Spoons & Honeymoon Suite, FirstOntario Concert Hall, Nov. 22.Niagara Falls band Honeymoon…
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Hamilton’s Le Tambour partners with hot Niagara restaurant on sold-out meal

Fat Rabbit, which earned lots of accolades in 2024 and is expanding its location in St. Catharines, was immediately on board with a collaboration with James Street North’s French bistro. The restaurant scene in Niagara is booming, and the reverberations are being felt here in Hamilton.  This month,…
Arts + Culture

Musical revue promises theatre’s great songs

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…
City Life

GALLERY: RBG’s Alice in Bloomland and Spring Tide at Gage Park

Take in the magical colours and fragrances of spring at two local destinations for plant lovers. PHOTOS BY JANICE THIESSEN/AUTOMATIC JANE Tumble down the rabbit hole into “Alice in Bloomland,” a wondrous botanical experience at Royal Botanical Gardens where reality bends and blossoms into a world of curiosity…
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Business friends are Pinch hitters

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…