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James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University. Scholar of cities, media, night Follow news of night culture at https://theurbannight.com/ or visit my research site at https://willstraw.com/

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Talk and Book Launch: Nights in Fairland by Will Straw - Milieux Join the Media History Research Centre for the launch of Nights in Fairland, the latest publication by Will Straw. In its time (the 1920s and 1930s), the New York-based periodical […]

milieux.concordia.ca/event/talk-a...

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Voler le show : la culture québécoise au temps du big business L'association du géant américain Live Nation à evenko, au Québec, menace-t-elle les petits joueurs du monde des spectacles de musique?

Good investigative report on Live Nation and event-ticket monopoloies in Quebec. ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numeri...

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Congratulations Andy!

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The little boy from Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island, who became "The Wolf of Broadway" in the 1920s. One focus of my new book, out now. www.mqup.ca/Books/N/Nigh...

23.01.2026 13:33 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Entre cenas, reuniones clandestinas y crímenes violentos: así era la vida nocturna en la antigua Roma Un estudio arroja información sobre cómo los peligros de la noche influían en la vida cotidiana de la sociedad romana

www.eldiario.es/spin/cenas-r...

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Yes indeed!

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Congratulations! I just checked and mine seems to be there too. Wow. I only sent in some corrections two days ago.

14.01.2026 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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09.01.2026 17:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Eroding the market’s hidden hand: toward a Post-Capitalist media system Abstract. Media-related problems facing democratic societies around the world today often stem from various kinds of market failures and structural limitat

In his recent essay for @ccc-journal.bsky.social, @victorpickard.bsky.social analyzes the capitalist logics at the root of many media-related issues and provides a framework for shifting to a less capitalist, more democratic media system.

Read here: buff.ly/AYvibor

05.01.2026 20:02 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Yesterday, I received advance copies of my new book, a contribution to magazine history, LGBTQ+ studies and the history of gossip. www.mqup.ca/Books/N/Nigh...

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Paris la nuit : entre fête et voisinage

www.durevie.paris/article/pari...

08.12.2025 18:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

J’y serai!

29.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nights in Fairyland In 1925 the publishers of Broadway Brevities were tried for running an extortion operation targeting New York’s social and cultural elites. While the first version of the magazine whispered gossip in ...

Publication date moved up to January 13th! Pre-ordernow. Nights in Fairyland www.mqup.ca/Books/N/Nigh...

26.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Start the presses! New York Post will expand to LA with launch of The California Post - Editor and Publisher The New York Post is going Hollywood.. The nation’s most popular tabloid will launch The California Post early next year — delivering its brand of fearless, common-sense journalism and legendary headl...

What?!

05.11.2025 16:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is published today, with my article on spaces of collective sleeping in the cinema.

05.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People I know keep telling me it's a happening place now - I still can't shake off the prejudice that it's for people looking for work (which I'm clearly not!)

05.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Are Run Clubs and Coffee Raves Really Taking Over From Nightclubs and Pub Crawls? While our FYPs might show run club and coffee rave supremacy, it turns out a high percentage of Australians are still getting out after-dark.
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Métro à Paris 24h/24 : révolution ou folie ? Métro toute la nuit à Paris : une promesse de mobilité ou un défi logistique ?

www.be.com/be-buzz/voya...

25.10.2025 21:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry you can't make it to Montreal, but the University of Ottawa is in Ottawa!

20.10.2025 21:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Weird Political System That Built a Better City
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity! The Weird Political System That Built a Better City

This explains Montreal's complicated system of municipal politics better than anything else I've read or seen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpFp...

06.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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1965 - Scopitone machines come to Des Moines, Iowa.

30.09.2025 15:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Behind the screen: How NTVB Media helps publishers engage readers and grow revenue - Editor and Publisher When The Villages Daily Sun launched a nostalgia-driven insert called Classics, they sold out ad space for the entire year and signed up 46 brand-new advertisers. At Lee Enterprises, a partnership wit...

Kind of interesting article on the success of newspaper inserts offering information on television programming. The secret, it seems, is getting rid of the old programming grid.

22.09.2025 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The dinner of Oct 20th would work fine! Where are you staying?

20.09.2025 17:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

HI Tom. I'd love to, but am available only on the 20th. I have a thesis defense on line running over lunch on the 21st, then am in Sherbrooke for a conference 22-25th. It's my busiest week of the term (though I'm retired.) Will you be here at lunch on the 20th? Would be great to see you.

20.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Canadian food and hospitality industry magazines (1952-1971) Click image to enlarge. Issue date is in image file name.

Last week, I acquired a collection of 175 Canadian restaurant and hospitality industry magazines from the years 1952-1971. I'll donate them to a food studies research centre, but, in the meantime, I did a quick gallery of the covers.
willstraw.com/canadian-foo...

20.09.2025 15:34 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Échecs et Soft Clubbing : La nouvelle nuit européenne entre jeu et bien-être Découvrez comment les échecs révolutionnent le soft clubbing en Europe : du Knight Club aux Pieces Chess, des événements hybrides avec DJ set et des matchs pour une sociabilité inclusive. Un boom de +...

www.nssmag.com/fr/lifestyle...

19.09.2025 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

oh, very sorry to hear this

11.09.2025 16:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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13 | 2025 - Les scènes culturelles à l’ère de la découvrabilité numérique : reconfigurations et tensions au sein de la F/ francophonie – Revue internationale des francophonies L’équipe de la Revue internationale des francophonies est heureuse de vous présenter ce numéro spécial intitulé « Les scènes culturelles à l’ère de la découvrabilité numérique : reconfigurations et te...

Very happy about this special issue of the Revue internationale des francophonies (on « Les scènes culturelles à l’ère de la découvrabilité numérique") with an interview with me by Hela Zahar and translation of my "Scenes and Sensibilities" from 2001!
publications-prairial.fr/rif/index.ph...

05.09.2025 13:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for the announcement - I downloaded and read this smart, lovely book this morning.

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