Free outdoor indie rock matinees will happen on Saturdays in August at Ferguson Station. Full Noon Fest, a made-in-Hamilton music series in an underused downtown space, is back featuring local and regional independent musicians.  Its founder is Hamilton musician and composer Neil Haverty, who kicked the series…

Lowk’Ai, Inkcantations, and Sleepy Bones Studios create safe spaces for the city’s 2SLGBTQIA+ communities to express themselves with ink as artists and clients. Hamilton is a home to many queer communities. Though not as crisply defined as neighbourhoods, the city is still a pull for queer populations who…

The Hamilton-based queer artist is founder and curator of the Femme Rising & Them Rising showcase series at Mills Hardware and has a new song ‘Skinny’ that explores the wrestling and the healing from an eating disorder. Hot on the heels of the fourth iteration of the Femme…

Host and author Jamie Tennant reflects on the beginning, and the ending, of a local program that talked to Hamilton, provincial, national, and even international authors over 500 episodes spanning a decade. After almost 10 years and 500 episodes, the GET LIT program has signed off. The what…

Here's a list of what has come, gone and changed in Hamilton and Burlington in June. Launched & opening soon Burgers n’ Fries Forever (738 Burloak Dr., Burlington) This Ontario franchise has recently expanded to Burlington with its Halal Triple A Canadian beef smash…

Iconic indie theatre performance festival celebrates 22 years of keeping Hamilton weird. ‘There’s room for everybody at this table,’ says festival director Chris Stanton. Festival director Chris Stanton can’t help but smile as he describes the enduring legacy and appeal of the Hamilton Fringe, the iconic independent theatre…

The events series for ‘lesbians, 2SLGBTQIA+ women, femmes, gender non-conforming folks, and their friends’ turns five in August. Sarah Barnhart (she/they) describes herself as the primary dreamer of FruitSalad. Originally from Burlington, Barnhart created the Hamilton-based FruitSalad after a visit to Montreal in 2021. FruitSalad is a…

Headliners Aysanabee, Protest the Hero, Mariel Buckley, The Grapes of Wrath, Murda Beatz, and William Prince join local performers Superstar Crush, Emma Whale, Golden Feather, Chore, Capitol, and Steve Strongman. For one weekend every September, James Street North in Hamilton transforms into the epicentre of Canadian music. Since…