Established to foster the arts in the city, the Hamilton Arts Council offers a special week long schedule of events for Arts Week.
Sarah Good: “These are songs that I’ve written whereas the other projects are much more collaborative,”
A special gathering of more eclectic music, art and culture has been happening in tribute to a fan and booster
The X–Men series has 12 movies in 19 years and Dark Phoenix may have not been planned to be the ending of the X–Men series
Hamilton Arts Week was launched in 2015 to celebrate local arts and culture, and increase visibility for the area’s creative industries.
Scheer and both his supporters and colleagues are trying to do the work of blunting Premier Ford’s impact
“We left Nova Scotia in 2001, I was freshly out of high school, and we decided we were going to see Canada,”
Ron Paul Liberty Report - Will Trump remember the organization he praised so much on the campaign trail?
Shanley, is a popular and prolific playwright, and this Irish-American romantic–comedy, is his most recent play.
Making it in brick and mortar retail these days is a tough go for the most part but for Brad Germain, opening up his record store was what he had to do.
Hamilton, Ontario: It was something that probably blossomed from his own dreams of being a musician himself.
“I wish it was sooner but I went to school for a little bit and the scheduling meant it ended up taking a few years,”
Their final production of the season, The Hamilton Players’ Guild presents, The Gentleman Clothier, directed by Greg Flis and produced by Lynne Jamieson
Four performances remain of The Pearl Company’s run of My Father’s House, a troubling, emotional play based on Canadian writer Sylvia Fraser’s book
“After two years of telling stories every month, we took a season off,” says one of its founding members, multidisciplinary artist Lisa Pijuan–Nomura.
Former federal cabinet minister, MP for Beauce (Quebec) and leader of the federal People’s Party of Canada about the nation’s state of affairs
While speaking off the record to a group of supporters, Secretary of State Pompeo revealed that US policy toward Venezuela has been a disaster
“I had the Will Ross Band for the Freeloader album I released back in 2014 and that was a really fun run"
“Persons has been busy touring a lot and work–shopping new songs on the road and recording with different people in the studio,”
The story of Hamilton’s Mark Howard was ripe for a biography but it wasn’t until a life altering epiphany that he actually decided to put pen to paper
She was trained in classical voice and forged her performance skills on classic rock, Gillian Nicola Alexander has been on a search for her own sound
Patrick Cargill’s Don’t Misunderstand Me, currently presented as a co–production by Act 4 Productions and Theatre Burlington
“Daniel strikes me as an anachronism. He admits that he resembles a man who appears out of time, and that is how The Gentleman Clothier, is described,”
As the city prepares for the 2019 Ticats season, perhaps it’s time to shed some light on the other Canadian football team in the Hammer.
The beauty pageant tradition was thriving. Like the Oscars, the Grey Cup or a quality Friday night made–for–tv movie, the pageant found the family huddled
What is Fake News? Surely, the term deserves a few dozen dissertations at this point and no doubt, we will get them.
On March 22 the Hamilton Spectator featured an op–ed by former Mohawk College Centre For Climate Change expert Sandi Stride
The origin story of Superman is engrained in pop culture mythos, it is surprising it has taken this long to get an evil twist on that story.
The Jimmy Dore Show is a hilarious take on news, politics and culture featuring Jimmy Dore, a professional stand up comedian, author and podcaster.
As the political smoke begins to clear on the phoney Russia investigation. Robert Mueller attempts and fails the cover his own tracks.
Just over a week since it was floated that 120,000 US troops could go to the Middle East to confront Iran
Brian Griffith was a staple on the local music stage for decades. Most musicians are dealing with the minutiae of every day life and their art
“I went to Delta!”, was the punchline, in what is the funniest joke in Douglas Rodger’s How Could You, Mrs Dick?, the 1989 stage play about Evelyn Dick
“We were looking for a script that would enable the four of us to work together closely, with the opportunity for us all to interact on stage."
(Hamilton, Ontario) “The list of benefits of being involved in drama and theatre performance is extensive,”
He may have seem like a local Hamilton musician through residencies at local venues, Lindy Vopnfjord will only become an official Hamiltonian this summer.
For the improv comedy troupe The Understudies: their hit show Swipe Right For Love will be featured as part of this year’s Hamilton Fringe Festival
With her family scheduled to be deported back to Jamaica tomorrow, young Natasha (Yara Shahidi) takes to the streets of New York.
After nearly a year, Enbridge has obtained approval from the National Energy Board to sell its Line 10 pipeline to Westover Express.
Last week, Alabama became the latest American state to introduce a stringent anti–abortion law. On the heels of places such as Ohio, Georgia and Missouri
A remake of the 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (which was a remake of the 1964 film Bedtime Story)
The young don’t notice the seismic changes that occur over time but the city and the world were quite different just ten years ago.
With a change up in membership, the Beelays didn’t feel at a disadvantage with two front people instead of one and have since fashioned a new EP
Last week, Amazon CEO and world’s wealthiest man Jeff Bezos gave his best version of a TED Talk, titled “Going To Space To Benefit Earth.”
Joel Cumby’s musical introduction on the local music stage is rather novel even though the singer and songwriter has lived in Hamilton for nearly a decade
Veteran music fans will be well familiar with the Vapids as their musical career spans past two decades with this year actually marking 25 years
Darby Mills was crowned the ‘Queen of Scream’ over 3 decades ago and while the Headpins made her famous, the band is only a part of what she wanted
More Ontario cities have made similar moves and Toronto is going after the oil companies who profit most from the rising levels of greenhouse gases
While writers like Margaret Atwood can write dystopian fiction like The Handmaid’s Tale, most of them resist their writing, being categorized as “sci–fi”
It’s hard to quantify Visiting Mr Green, the Jeff Baron play currently being co-produced by Snapping Turtle Productions and the Pearl Company.
This weekend marks another James Street Art Crawl but with the warmer weather, Mark Furukawa and Dr Disc open up their roof to celebrate 28 years
To be sure, many of the candidates for the Democratic nomination for President are people I’d wish to stay comfortably distanced from the Oval Office.
The four friends at the centre of The Aldershot Player’s latest offering prove that Always a Bridesmaid doesn’t have to mean never a bride.
Embracing a traditional country sound but not without some humorous perspectives, the Handsome Devils ingratiated themselves into the Hamilton scene
In his executive order issued Wednesday, President Trump weakened part of an order first issued by Obama in July 2016.
If somebody famous is heading to Bufallo, you can bet Dylan Atack will have the lowdown on their visit.
Tom Jackson is asking city staff and the Hamilton Police Service if either organization will consider taking over investigating animal cruelty complaints
Things are happening in Hamilton lately – going through a gentrification, becoming a hot spot for new breweries, restaurants and trans-Atlantic flights
The CHL in association with the OHL and the Hamilton Bulldogs today announced that the 2020 CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game will be hosted by the Bulldogs
Mike Filer didn’t think twice before putting pen to paper to sign a new contract with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats after he hit the free agent market
Canada's central bank has decided to keep its benchmark interest rate at 1.75, and says the timing of future hikes has become increasingly uncertain.
Equifax Canada says consumer delinquencies climbed higher in the fourth quarter of 2018 warned the credit monitoring company
Maxime Bernier rallied against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer over their stances on pipelines on Tuesday
Trudeau is not apologizing over the allegations of attempted interference by himself and his staff detailed by Jody Wilson-Raybould
Last month, 735 homes were sold across the Hamilton area, a four per cent drop from February of last year, but a 24 per cent increase over January.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg delivers a lecture on the future of Brexit, from Monday June 18th 2018
Theresa May will urge the EU to help get her Brexit deal through the Commons by agreeing legally binding changes to the controversial backstop.
Last week, two nuclear-armed nations escalated tense relations into a risky military exchange. On Feb. 25, the Indian Air Force attacked