- Off the oft-beaten path
Most of my critical writing energies these past few days have been gobbled up in the task of producing another Hamilton report for Akimblog. As this is the fifth cross-city blog post that I’ve written for Akimbo, I’m beginning to recognize an alarming trend in my coverage - namely, my reliance upon a mere handful […]
- James North Art Crawl: September
No matter one’s ties to any sort of educational context, September continues to hold something in the way of new beginnings, especially after the cyclical languor of August. In that spirit, this month’s Art Crawl offered a portend of change to come with a one-night open house of the former Hotel Hamilton, currently being renovated […]
- Glowering down on James North
Given that I woke up this morning musing on what I might find to blog about today (lest I suffer further admonishments from the big brother in Whitby), I should have been pleased to see a big shiny Spectator article laid open on the dining room table. Perhaps the problem was getting hit at my […]
- Vacancy in the Hotel Hamilton
I’m fortunate to have a mother who still reads The Hamilton Spectator, as she does as good a job as an RSS feed whenever anything remotely art-related turns up in its pages, and today’s front-page pronouncement on the forthcoming conversion of the former Hotel Hamilton certainly qualifies. As per usual with bringing these articles to […]
- An open letter on Hamilton’s post-steel future
Partway through this lovely Victoria Day weekend, I received an email from an associate producer of The Agenda with Steve Paikin on TVO. Besides feeling relief at knowing I wasn’t the only person using the May Two-Four to catch up on work, I was pleased to learn that The Agenda will be hosting a panel […]
