Jeff Mahoney, The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON) Journalist Profile

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Who wants to face this world sober?

3 weeks ago | thespec.com | Jeff Mahoney

The party is preserved! The tailgate variety, I mean. So shine your lamp upon our black-and-gold painted faces. Victory, ring your bells from the highest steeples. Let the word go forth in the land. Somewhere right now, a man is sitting on the bumper of his car, shirt off, dabbing away a tear of relief and triumph, then cracking open a cold one from the brewski cooler in his trunk.
Of naming rights and naming wrongs

1 month ago | thespec.com | Jeff Mahoney

Last December, when the deal expired on the naming rights to our beloved football building/beer-tent-with-bathrooms (Oskee has to Wee Wee after a few), Tim Hortons decided to punt. “No, thanks” to freshening up the licensing agreement. As much as they may have liked to watch that movie again, they returned the video. Be kind. Rewind. Back where we started. I guess they looked at the cost-benefit horizon. Third down and … well, tariffs. Market upheaval. A long, long yardage of economic uncertainty.
A big tip for ‘Waitress’

1 month ago | thespec.com | Jeff Mahoney

Sugar. Butter. Flour. These are the first three words sung in “Waitress,” on now at Theatre Aquarius, and I thought they might be trigger warnings — like cigarettes, strong language and self-harm — rendered musically. What could be worse — glutens? trans fats? — in this antioxidant/polyphenols-mad food culture we find ourselves in?
Chapter and verse: gritLIT returns with a Hamilton-heavy lineup

1 month ago | thespec.com | Jeff Mahoney

Hamilton’s 2025 gritLIT Readers & Writers Festival is calling us back to celebrate books and the brave people who make them, who put words and sentences in striking formation, shapes of fiction, non-fiction, acts of creative brain-smithing and soul-ufacturing of story/poetry/everything betwixt and between. It turns out that includes art on the wall, which is part of this year’s gritLIT itinerary — a trip to the Art Gallery of Hamilton to explore the writing visual/art/ inspiration connection.
Getting to the art of the matter

2 months ago | thespec.com | Jeff Mahoney

It has long been a yearly calendar destination, one of the most popular annual events in the area — and beyond, with a reach into Toronto and Niagara and, more widely, into the ranks of art, auction and party lovers everywhere. But now the DVSA (Dundas Valley School of Art) Art Auction, aside from the ample crowd-drawing charms and virtues that make it an all-but-mandatory attendance affair, has an additional pull. It is just about the last man — um, man-datory — live art auction standing.
On U.S.-Canada relations: ‘He wants to take over my house’

2 months ago | thespec.com | Jeff Mahoney

Sitting down with my head doctor the other day, I told her, “My neighbour of many years has recently developed some kind of horrible borderline disorder.”“You mean, borderline personality disorder?”“No. He doesn’t have a personality. Just ego and greed. No, it’s more specific. He wants to take over my house and make it a room in his own.”“How do you feel about that?”“I’m feeling kinda — what’s the word? — pre-’occupied.’”“Do you think he means it?”“Well, he’s been known to go nuclear.
On U.S.-Canada relations: ‘He wants to take over my house’

2 months ago | wellandtribune.ca | Jeff Mahoney

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On U.S.-Canada relations: ‘He wants to take over my house’

2 months ago | stcatharinesstandard.ca | Jeff Mahoney

Sitting down with my head doctor the other day, I told her, “My neighbour of many years has recently developed some kind of horrible borderline disorder.”“You mean, borderline personality disorder?”“No. He doesn’t have a personality. Just ego and greed. No, it’s more specific. He wants to take over my house and make it a room in his own.”“How do you feel about that?”“I’m feeling kinda — what’s the word? — pre-’occupied.’”“Do you think he means it?”“Well, he’s been known to go nuclear.
Jeff Mahoney goes behind the scenes at ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’

2 months ago | thespec.com | Jeff Mahoney

I will be wearing black to opening night of The Players’ Guild’s upcoming production of “Tuesdays With Morrie.” Not out of any sense of mourning or grief, even though (soft spoiler) the play does deal with loss, but rather for the sake of obscurity in the dark. I will be the invisible hand. Rather an invisible hand, one of several moving things around as though we’re not really there, part of the magic under which theatre cloaks the more mechanical underpinnings of its enterprise of wonder.
Jeff Mahoney goes behind the scenes at ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’

2 months ago | hamiltonnews.com | Jeff Mahoney

I will be wearing black to opening night of The Players’ Guild’s upcoming production of “Tuesdays With Morrie.” Not out of any sense of mourning or grief, even though (soft spoiler) the play does deal with loss, but rather for the sake of obscurity in the dark. I will be the invisible hand. Rather an invisible hand, one of several moving things around as though we’re not really there, part of the magic under which theatre cloaks the more mechanical underpinnings of its enterprise of wonder.