What a find. Don’t let the inauspicious location fool you. Ios is lovely. Perhaps it was just what we really needed
One of the newer names on the local stage is not only prick up ears for their style of music but also for their altruistic goals.
It was Sunday morning in America. It was a Sunday morning, like most other Sunday mornings in America.
The more eclectic and underground sounds of the city are heading to the country this weekend thanks to a collective of promoters and performers
“Swingin’ in St. John’s was such a success we're going to be mounting it for a third time this year with the same cast we have for Diamond in the Rough,”
You don't spit into the wind, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
He was a rock icon, a promoter of Canada and a larger than life character that helped shape a national identity
Evan Hansen camp of modern musicals that forego sequins and kick lines and focus instead on the challenges of real life.
If leaders and citizens engage in a debate about whether the places you are holding asylum–seekers and refugees are ‘technically’ concentration camps
“We grew up playing music and decided to study music after high school but Brad did his undergrad at Western and then moved to the University of Toronto"
Curtain Call Performing Arts Company takes the stage July 12 at Hamilton Theatre Inc. with Next to Normal. Curtain Call
Pip had released some twenty–four albums in his discography with the last dozen or so created his time in the last decade or so
Spider–Man: Far From Home is technically the 8th Spider–Man film (or 9th, give or take a Venom) and Far From Home proves he is still a viable character.
“I joined the later incarnation of Cry Baby in Toronto in the ’ 90s,” recalls drummer Lucky Pete Lambert who recently helped Billing revive that band
2019 is set to be an incredible year for the Hamilton Fringe, and the Players’ Guild of Hamilton is one of the best venues
David Brennan was born and raised in the Hammer, a place he describes as the perfect incubator for his comic soul.
For starters, these things just looked and sounded like an absolute mess. We’ll get into the asinine ‘debating’ that unfolded
The world of classical guitar comes to Hamilton with a festival that features concerts, workshops vendors and culminates with a guitar competition.
Songs from the Bishop offers a novel stage for some Hamilton indie rockers to get in front of a different kind of audience
Camille Intson, is a young woman, from Hamilton, with a real gift for narrative storytelling, writing songs, and plays.
Ghost hunting power duo the Warrens, Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga), have recently acquired a mysterious and very creepy looking doll
Moment In History: US President Donald Trump has become the first US president to go into North Korea while leader.
Balogh was there when Jackson Square opened in 1972 and wanted to book bands on the rooftop and that got his foot in the door.
“No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything, They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard.”
The Hamilton Choir Project, has for the past three seasons, presented several choral focused concerts, on the local arts scene.
Juno Award winner and 2019 International Blues Challenge Best Guitarist (solo/duo) Steve Strongman returns to his hometown to offer his newest album.
“After our last record, we lost a couple of members in the band and around the same time, our deal with our old record label fell apart”
This week sees the debut of Tor’s newest experimental performance piece, Seven Songs, which is playing at the Staircase.
She keeps relegating Woody to the back of the closet, something that minor control freak Woody isn’t used to after being the top toy in town.
“We were in a band together called Toothpick Hercules, we were pals, went to the same high school and played music together”
Can President Trump counter the pressure from Neocons and the Media to start a new war in the middle east.
Last week, the Toronto Raptors become NBA Champions. You can forgive any long time Raptors fans for re-reading that piece of news.
Zombies have been used as social commentary for a very long time ever since the original Night of the Living Dead movies
Reminiscing about the music from nearly three decades ago is like looking through an old year book for Maurice
Health Canada’s regulatory framework on cannabis edibles will likely receive parliamentary approval and royal assent within weeks.
“ArtsFest is such a popular festival that attracts tens of thousands of people from across the province and the northern US”
Whether it’s something more adventurous, experimental or just downright different, Zula Presents’ Something Else!
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.