Culture / Film
Monocolumn
Thursday 12 January
Hollywood’s animals don’t realise what stars they are
Have you seen the film The Artist? You know, the one with the cute dog in it? Yes, it’s also the silent film that’s in black and white.
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Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Monday 28 September
Party animals
Beijing will play host to an emphatic demonstration of China’s growing military power on Thursday when a panoply of new military hardware is unveiled at this year’s National Day parade, marking the 60th anniversary of the…
Culture / Newspapers
Party animal
The second correspondent in our series looking at foreign coverage of the US presidential election is Li Xuejiang, Washington bureau chief for China’s ‘People’s Daily’, the state controlled newspaper with a circulation of…
Affairs / Retail
Monocolumn
Friday 2 December
The animal kingdom of the high street
What is it about shopping at this time of year that turns people into animals?
Midori House, episode 70
Copenhagen Fashion Week, Qatar Airways’s new lounge at Heathrow, and a chat with John O'Shea who is campaigning for a license to kill animals.
Affairs / Automotive
Monocolumn
Wednesday 13 January
Sweden kills wolves ‘for their own good’
I have never seen a wolf, except at Skansen, the outdoor zoo in Stockholm, where most of the wild Nordic animals are represented.
Business / Environment
The buzz driver
Kajima, one of Japan’s largest engineering firms, built the country’s first concrete dam and nuclear reactor. Now it’s at the forefront again, this time in the field of urban biodiversity. We meet the man who sees the…
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.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 13 April
Weekend agenda, 14/15 April
This weekend’s highlights include a film retrospective of Czech animation artist Jiří Trnka at the BFI in London, an inviting new addition to LA’s food scene and European music dates for Lauryn Hill.
Business / Craft
Super modeller
From a childhood obsession with animal bones, Esben Horn has carved out a career creating detailed, large-scale models of bugs and beasts. Now his firm is sought-after around the globe.
Midori House, episode 307
We ask if Burma’s use of military jets on civilians indicates a step backwards for the country, find out why Gap is moving into the luxury market, and count the number of zoo animals in the UK.
Midori House, episode 225
A look at whether Haiti could be a tourism hotspot, visit the Fantoche animation festival in Switzerland, and learn about Brazil’s anti-corruption movement.
Midori House, episode 78
How Lebanon has been affected by Syria, Robert Bound talks culture, and a look at Mitt Romney’s past animal safety record.
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…
Culture / Printing
Monocolumn
Saturday 24 October
Print and the revolution
Paper is dead, ink is drying up, the newsstand is a wasteland and the future will be backlit, animated and user-generated. That may be if you’re a tech entrepreneur riding around on your Segway in Marin Country and you’ve…
Section D, episode 75
The future of the bathroom at ISH fair in Frankfurt, we drop in on a toymaker in Jakarta, an animator in Berlin, and a graphics team in Porto, and hear how design is playing a role in the Palestinian and Israeli conflict…
Culture / Arts
Culture Briefing
Q&As with Fernando Trueba, who's directing his first animated film, and Asher Edelman, an ex-banker and owner of an art investment firm. Plus film reviews, auction sales and a stand-out Hong Kong gallery.
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.
Edits / Travel
Expo 35: Istanbul
Istanbul is like the Med on steroids; stronger coffee, crazier roads and very animated, opinionated people. But the pace of life is more relaxed than in western Europe and the party scene doesn’t stop until dawn.