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A Fresh (Up) approach to R&B in Hamilton

2 weeks ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Sarah Jessica Rintjema

Sonic Unyon’s showcases have expanded to include hip hop, soul, electronic and roots performers. The dream is to expand to a full-fledged summer festival one day. Hamilton has a longstanding reputation as a punk and metal city, with a hardcore scene that has been supported for decades by local venues with similar tastes, grunge-y bars, and house shows that overlap social circles.
Sharing the LRT goldmine

2 weeks ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Eugene Ellmen

Pilot project aims to provide an alternative future for Hamilton’s transit corridor, one that includes affordable housing alongside upscale high-rises. A land speculation bonanza is underway along Hamilton’s King and Main streets triggered chiefly by the largest infrastructure project in the city’s history, the $3.4-billion light rail transit line. Like every other major city in Canada, high levels of immigration and demand for urban housing are driving up property values.
Housing Secretariat - Hamilton City Magazine

2 weeks ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Eugene Ellmen

Pilot project aims to provide an alternative future for Hamilton’s transit corridor, one that includes affordable housing alongside upscale high-rises. A land speculation bonanza is underway along Hamilton’s King and Main streets triggered chiefly by the largest infrastructure project in the city’s history, the $3.4-billion light rail transit…
Diana Panton is constant reinvention

2 weeks ago | hamiltoncitymagazine.ca | Kerry Doole

Hamilton jazz vocalist celebrates 20 years of recording with soft winds and roses, her 11th full-length record, in which she tackles many contemporary favourites. Juno-winning Hamilton jazz vocalist Diana Panton has just celebrated a milestone 20th anniversary of becoming a recording artist in fitting style. She recently released a new album, soft winds and roses, her 11th full-length record in a discography now impressive in both its size and consistent quality.
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.