The Monocle Weekly, episode 143
Coverage of the Human Rights Watch Film festival, Kate Spicer discusses her new film, and sound expert Bernie Krause talks about the music of animals.
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Culture / Graphic Design
Drawn together
The artists, animators and graphic designers Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Deygas met in 1988. Although both are artists in their own right, they collaborate on almost all their projects. They formed their production company…
Business / Manufacturing
Monocolumn
Thursday 11 March
The fur ban
Brigitte Bardot is not a frequent lobbyist in the Israeli parliament, so her three consecutive letters to Knesset members, urging them to approve an all-out ban on the fur trade in Israel, seem to have left their mark.
Affairs / Soft Power
Monocolumn
Sunday 5 August
Never underestimate the power of a puppy
Last week the Russian president Vladimir Putin was presented with an Akita fighting dog puppy by visiting Japenese foreign minister Koichiro Gemba.
Business / Industry
Monocolumn
Wednesday 26 May
Controversy in cowboy country
On the face of it, it is just an auction of 35 horses in a small Western town.
Culture / Books
Monocolumn
Thursday 17 December
Rethinking North Korea
Not content with penning the most savage attack on American literature in decades, US academic Brian Myers has produced a book destined to shatter conventional assumptions about the world’s most mysterious nation.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 3 November
Weekend agenda 3/4 November
This weekend check out Korean cinema in London, enjoy art in Toronto and listen to the new album from songwriter Cody Chestnutt.
Edits / Film
Monocolumn
Friday 10 December
The 3D films coming at you
After almost 30 years and weeks of heavy-duty PR, press junkets, special trailer screenings and a soundtrack launch, Tron: Legacy – the sequel of the 1982 cutting-edge sci-fi Tron, is being released.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Wednesday 24 March
Seal hunt protests
On 15 March, Canadian embassies and consulates around the world were subjected to rare displays of political theatre, much of it both angry and scantily clad.
Business / Technology
Star of India
In our series on emerging business hubs we reveal why you should invest in Pune, India’s booming IT and industrial design centre. But beware: success is already putting strains on the city’s transport system and energy…
Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
The boats are hosed down, the kids are back at school and the holidays are well and truly over in the southern hemisphere, so now New Zealanders are bracing themselves for a year of political blood sport. An election must…
Edits / Travel
Constant and noble
Young creatives have set up shop in higgledy-piggledy Turnacibasi Sokak. It’s also a pleasant place to buy antiques, vintage records, homeware and reclaimed furniture or enjoy a steam and massage at the hamam.
Design / Interior design
Monocolumn
Thursday 4 October
The office is not a playground
How often do you show up for a meeting in unfamiliar territory and are suddenly slammed with an extreme case of office envy?
Culture / Media
Media Briefing
A new Russian TV comedy channel, a bookshop in Bratislava, a new gallery in Washington and a Q & A with the founder of the Pinta art festival in Argentina.
Affairs / Politics
Europe Briefing
Swedes take aim at the wolf, Boyko wonder in the Balkans and feeling the heat in Germany. Plus, Letter from Samara, Russia's new boom city.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 11 May
Weekend agenda 11/12 May
This weekend pick out a literary classic in Buenos Aires, take a cinematic trip to Greenland, and enjoy the new album from Atlanta band Deerhunter.
Culture / Publishing
Media Briefing
Turkey's religion-themed reality show upsets the imams, an Israeli animation studio aims to out-draw Pixar and we report on the relaunch and redesign of Germany's premier financial newspaper, Handelsblatt - reworked by…
Affairs / Defence
Duty and the beast
Never work with animals is a mantra in TV but exotic, domestic and native beasts have been employed to work in conflicts around the world with mixed consequences. Take a walk on the wild side with Monocle.
Affairs / Environment
Hard-task masters
This is Monocle’s homage to the city workers charged with some of the toughest tasks in the world, from the nitty gritty of slum clearance in India, to dealing with Cairo’s rubbish problem and working in Taipei’s animal…