I met up with Natasha Gatto because I was intrigued by her spectacular bathing suit designs that are made to measure on Etsy, and when I found out she was local to Hamilton, I had to find out her story. Her company is called Gattina Designs, and Natasha runs the show out of a gorgeous airy space in the beautifully restored Empire

Congratulations on your decision to do a green smoothie detox! (Or a better name would be smoothie feast!) Your body will thank you for it. First off, you should breathe easy. You aren’t going to starve yourself for a week with this plan… you can restrict your diet to 3-5 smoothies a day, or add in some kicker superfoods, or fresh

I found a treasure trove of cool kid gifts at a local toy shop on Locke Street in Hamilton, called Citizen Kid. They have “natural toys of quality, integrity and lasting value” – read: we don’t sell cheap plastic crap that snaps in half within 5 minutes. So, that’s cool. Also, many of the toys there look like so much fun, I

So, I’m all about shopping local this Christmas because I want to prove that you can completely avoid the mall and still get really cool gifts. And I definitely proved it on this King Street shopping trip. Okay, I cheated a bit this time – I brought in a ringer… fashionista blogger Courtney of La Belle Sirene accompanied me! Here are our

My mission this Christmas is to shop locally and in as many independent businesses as I can. The real challenge though, is what to get for the men on my list. So I teamed up with Nick Fotache (a fellow entrepreneur at Platform 302, the coworking office on Cumberland Avenue in Hamilton) to get a guy’s perspective on ideas for gifts. We

#Novemburger is a simple concept – local restaurants feature a specific burger during the month of November and Urbanicity promotes the heck out of ’em, and lets you rate them online (Novemburger.ca). It’s actually quite genius, because everyone loves an excuse to eat a hamburger, and supporting a local event is a great excuse! Except for one tiny problem –