Meredith Macleod

Hamilton

Associate Publisher and Editorial Director at HAMILTON CITY Magazine

Associate publisher and editorial director of HAMILTON CITY Magazine, musician, dog lover and always optimistic golfer. Hamilton is in my blood.

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Articles

Emma Donoghue’s Paris Express tracks fateful journey

3 weeks ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Meredith Macleod

Acclaimed writer will visit Hamilton to talk about her new work of historical fiction at a pre-festival gritLIT event at the Playhouse Cinema on April 9. Acclaimed author Emma Donoghue loves the time immediately after releasing a new book, when she tours to give readings and speak at literary festivals. But she also has a habit of mentally preparing herself for critical reviews. “I'm very extroverted. So I love the social aspects of the book promotion events.
Fully Committed is a heaping plate of fun

3 weeks ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Meredith Macleod

Gavin Crawford delivers a captivating performance in a one-man play that beautifully satirizes the rich and the powerful desperate for a table at NYC’s hottest restaurant. Gavin Crawford’s hilarious performance in Fully Committed at Theatre Aquarius is nothing short of remarkable. I was exhausted for him as he took a bow in front of a packed house standing on its feet on opening night.
AGH exhibit celebrates the mystery of the lost painting

4 weeks ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Meredith Macleod |Helen McNicoll

Ongoing exhibit running until May 25 features more than 60 works by Helen McNicoll, an important Canadian Impressionist who was recognized by contemporaries during her short career. The Art Gallery of Hamilton played a key role in determining the authenticity of a long-lost work of an important Canadian Impressionist and now that sun-dappled work that depicts women working in a field has a special place in an exhibit of Helen McNicoll’s work at the downtown gallery.
Community event delivers free cuts and styles to 257 kids and youth

1 month ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Meredith Macleod

Excel in Style saw 66 textured hair professionals donate their Saturday to boost confidence and self-expression for Black and racialized young people. Lohifa Pogoson Acker gets teary when she recaps a recent event to deliver haircuts and styling to more than 250 Black and racialized kids and youth. Sixty-six barbers, braiders, textured hair stylists and curly hair stylists showed up, all but three from Hamilton. Each gave up a Saturday in their salons and studios to provide free cuts and styles.
JUNOS coming to Hamilton’s downtown arena in 2026

1 month ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Meredith Macleod

Newly transformed and modernized venue will host awards week for the seventh time next March. The first big news for Hamilton’s transforming arena is that the venue will host the 2026 JUNO Awards. The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) made the announcement Thursday.
Hamilton’s arena transformation on time and on budget, says developer

1 month ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Meredith Macleod

Concert and hockey venue at Bay Street and York Boulevard will see vast unused space turned into clubs, lounges, restaurants and concessions. Check out the gallery below!From the outside, it may look like little is happening within the walls of Hamilton’s downtown arena. But that’s a long way from the truth. Inside, things look much different than they did seven months ago, the last time arena developer Oak View Group (OVG) took local media on a tour. Then, it was a hollowed-out shell.
Marisa Mariella is on a good food mission

1 month ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Meredith Macleod |Stoney Creek resident

Stoney Creek resident and Cable 14 host is joining HAMILTON CITY Magazine to share her passion for cooking, mental health and wellness. Food advocate and blogger Marisa Mariella is bringing together three of her passions – food, teaching and mental wellness – in new contributions to HAMILTON CITY Magazine. Mariella will share monthly recipes and cooking videos for easy and delicious dishes that you’ll be proud to serve to family and friends.
Hamilton photographer earns third deep dive world record

1 month ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Meredith Macleod

Steve Haining pulled off a model shoot past the decompression zone at a shipwreck in Florida that has been recognized by Guinness. A circling shark, a jellyfish sting, eight-foot waves, and the ever-present threat of decompression sickness did not sink Hamilton photographer Steve Haining’s quest for a third Guinness world record.
No reservations about Fully Committed

1 month ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Meredith Macleod

Next production at Theatre Aquarius features one actor, three dozen characters and a behind-the-curtain look at high-end dining. If ever there was a need to laugh it might be now and Theatre Aquarius’s Fully Committed promises to deliver, says comedian Gavin Crawford, who will embody roughly 40 characters in a one-man show set in a high-end restaurant.
Hounds of Hamilton: Dogs are the stars at Fetching Studios

1 month ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Meredith Macleod

We need a big dose of dogs these days so HAMILTON CITY Magazine is a new feature to celebrate the city's canines. Send in your dogs!This story starts with a photogenic bulldog. Soon after he moved to Hamilton in 2020, a neighbour who breeds bulldogs asked photographer Geoff Fitzgerald to take photos of a new litter. “We were grinning ear to ear. It was just so much fun,” says Fitzgerald’s wife Vanessa Marion-Merritt, who helped to corral the scrambling puppies.