Samantha Gardner moved from Toronto and took the chance to fulfil a dream of opening a bakery. It has become a local favourite since launching in January. Leaven House opened in January this year, and immediately became a local favourite. Owner Samantha Gardner says it has been a…

We asked the creator of For What We Labour about setting a farce in Ancient Greece and staging it in a Hamilton home, and we talked to the artistic director of the Hamilton Theatre Project about the darkly comic and provocative Within the Glass. For What We Labour:…

Live karaoke band made the contribution because ‘our regulars and our shows are by definition and by design extremely inclusive.’ Hamilton-based live karaoke band The Approximators will donate $1,000 to Speqtrum, a program for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth in the city. The grant will be donated to Speqtrum and the…

Hamilton folk and bluegrass quartet will play the Mariposa Folk Festival and will release their first vinyl record this summer. We caught up with Wreckless Harbour to chat about their debut at the Mariposa Folk Festival, the state of folk music in troubled times, and their long-awaited vinyl…

Gabriel Marcelo and Paulo Leon are building on the music scene in Hamilton through their music, their venue, and their record label. Chilean-Canadian brothers Gabriel Marcelo and Paulo Leon are building on Hamilton’s music scene on multiple fronts. They are lifelong Hamiltonians, and frontmen of three-piece rock…

In Honest Motherhood: On Losing My Mind and Finding Myself, Hamilton writer Libby Ward has delivered an unflinching and disarmingly funny memoir about the exhaustion that comes from pursuing perfection as a parent. Honest Motherhood: On Losing My Mind and Finding Myself wasn’t supposed to be a memoir.

Indian & Cowboy Creative Media will preview five new original podcast series this weekend with live tapings in front of 50 audience members. Indian & Cowboy Creative Media, a new Indigenous-owned storytelling studio based in Hamilton, is honouring National Indigenous History Month this June with the inaugural Festival…

The Players’ Guild of Hamilton’s revue brings the best of Rodgers and Hammerstein from The King And I, South Pacific, Allegro, Me And Juliet, Cinderella, Carousel and Oklahoma. Now in the middle of its run, The Players’ Guild of Hamilton’s production of A Grand Night for Singing is…