Will Straw
@wstraw.bsky.social
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/
What?!
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...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What?!
This is published today, with my article on spaces of collective sleeping in the cinema.
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is published today, with my article on spaces of collective sleeping in the cinema.
This explains Montreal's complicated system of municipal politics better than anything else I've read or seen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpFp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpFp...
The Weird Political System That Built a Better City
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
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October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This explains Montreal's complicated system of municipal politics better than anything else I've read or seen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpFp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpFp...
1965 - Scopitone machines come to Des Moines, Iowa.
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
1965 - Scopitone machines come to Des Moines, Iowa.
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.
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...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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.
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.
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Canadian food and hospitality industry magazines (1952-1971)
Click image to enlarge. Issue date is in image file name.
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September 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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...
willstraw.com/canadian-foo...
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!
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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...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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...
publications-prairial.fr/rif/index.ph...
From the excellent Miguel Cavarubbias exhibit in Mexico City, "United Nations," 1942.
August 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
From the excellent Miguel Cavarubbias exhibit in Mexico City, "United Nations," 1942.
From the excellent Miguel Cavarubbias exhibit in Mexico City, "William Shakespeare and Metro Goldwyn Mayer," 1936.
August 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
From the excellent Miguel Cavarubbias exhibit in Mexico City, "William Shakespeare and Metro Goldwyn Mayer," 1936.
A big congratulations to my friend and former post-doc Jamie Jelinski, for this very interesting look at how transit systems document graffiti and the bureaucratic means by which they do so.
www.jamiejelinski.ca/scene-of-cri...
www.jamiejelinski.ca/scene-of-cri...
Scene of Crime • Jamie Jelinski
www.jamiejelinski.ca
July 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A big congratulations to my friend and former post-doc Jamie Jelinski, for this very interesting look at how transit systems document graffiti and the bureaucratic means by which they do so.
www.jamiejelinski.ca/scene-of-cri...
www.jamiejelinski.ca/scene-of-cri...
Jean-Pierre Faye a 100 ans (Le Corps miroir) diacritik.com/2025/07/19/l...
Jean-Pierre Faye a 100 ans (Le Corps miroir)
Alors que deux des principaux poètes ayant activement participé au Collectif Change, ce rassemblement d’écrivains en rupture avec Tel Quel et Sollers qui s
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July 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Jean-Pierre Faye a 100 ans (Le Corps miroir) diacritik.com/2025/07/19/l...
Bravo à Marie-Pier Luneau and Harold Bérubé for this new issue of mens: revue d’histoire intellectuelle et culturelle, devoted to crime magazines in Quebec. I have an article on the magazine Détective (1964-1968.) Accessible via Erudit, if your institution subscribes. www.erudit.org/fr/revues/me...
Crimes et châtiments, vérité et fiction : l’édition de magazines policiers au Québec (1942-1968). Volume 25, numéro 1-2, automne 2024, printemps 2025 – Mens
Consultez le sommaire de ce numéro de la revue Mens sur la plateforme Érudit. Discipline : Études littéraires, Histoire, Sciences humaines et sociales.
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July 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Bravo à Marie-Pier Luneau and Harold Bérubé for this new issue of mens: revue d’histoire intellectuelle et culturelle, devoted to crime magazines in Quebec. I have an article on the magazine Détective (1964-1968.) Accessible via Erudit, if your institution subscribes. www.erudit.org/fr/revues/me...
Döden er et kjaertegn (Death is a Caress), the 1949 Norwegian film by Edith Carlmar, is often considered the first film noir directed by a woman. Tonight we watched a 1953 film by Carlmar, Ung Frue Forsvunnet (A Young Woman Missing), a very good drama about drug addiction.
July 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Döden er et kjaertegn (Death is a Caress), the 1949 Norwegian film by Edith Carlmar, is often considered the first film noir directed by a woman. Tonight we watched a 1953 film by Carlmar, Ung Frue Forsvunnet (A Young Woman Missing), a very good drama about drug addiction.
