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?
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The Monocle Daily, episode 30
The latest shopping habits from America’s Black Friday and an interview with Matthieu Mabin, a French journalist awarded for his work in Libya.
The Briefing, episode 280
Joseph Dana brings us the latest from Egypt, we talk Black Friday with our man in DC Sasha Issenberg, and Ben Page explains the week in statistics.
Affairs / Retail
Monocolumn
Tuesday 4 December
Step into Christmas… and actual shops
That’s much more like it. I’m in the mood for feasting, hall decking, Christmas cheering, wine mulling and thinking on the season now that this weekend has just happened.
Design / Management
Monocolumn
Monday 30 January
Enforcing uniform in the workplace creates grey areas
In an era when the concepts of formal and casual are increasingly blurred, it might be assumed that dress codes are hopelessly outmoded.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 6 April
Weekend agenda 6/7 April
This weekend’s highlights include an exhibition by German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann in London’s Simon Lee Gallery, a tour of the São Paulo International Art Fair and some jazz tunes by singer/songwriter Eliane Elias.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 3 March
Weekend agenda, 3/4 March
This weekend’s highlights include an avant garde dance performance in Taipei, a new exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, and a much-anticipated re-release of one of Bertolucci’s classic films.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 16 September
Weekend agenda: 17/18 September
This weekend’s entertainment includes The Brooklyn Book Festival featuring Paul Auster, live music from Esmerine who are on tour, an exhibition at the Uffizi Museum in Florence, and London’s latest pop-up shop for the…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 8 October
The problem of airports as memorials
On Friday evening, at an appropriately lavish ceremony in the Czech capital, Prague airport was officially renamed Vaclav Havel Airport.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 10 August
Weekend agenda, 11/12 August
This weekend check out a great new restaurant in New York, enjoy Oslo’s premier music festival, and pick up WHY?’s new album.
Affairs / Sport
Monocolumn
Monday 1 March
Russia’s winter games of discontent
It has been two weeks of unprecedented soul-searching for Russian sport, after a dismal performance at the Winter Olympics threatened to overshadow the glitzy and expensive roadshow that the country took to Vancouver to…
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 27 April
Weekend agenda 27/28 April
This weekend check out an Argentinian contemporary film classic, see the works of Swedish sculptor Claes Oldenburg in New York, and enjoy the new album from Berlin-based dance music producer David August.
Design / Craft
Design/Architecture Briefing
Mexico City's housing complex that goes back to nature, a chair made in collaboration with flip-flop giant Havaianas, and the bestselling Lamino armchair.
Affairs / Politics
Americas briefing
How a herd of zebras is saving lives on Bolivia's roads, and the Caribbean island where ATM machines have become a tourist attraction.
Business / Business Hubs
Window of opportunity
If you’re entering 2008 with a handsome bonus, a generous inheritance or a fat payoff, *Monocle* has identified 10 business opportunities worthy of investment. A mixture of fresh ideas and proven concepts ready for other…
Edits / Music
Mountain high
Music festivals have become big business in Japan, whether you want kodo drummers at The Earth Celebration or J-pop at A-Nation. But the one that started the boom is still the biggest and the best: Fuji Rock. We headed to…
Edits / Manufacturing
Inventory no. 62
Time to shine your shoes, pamper your pooch and brighten up your home with this month’s assortment of objects.
Business / Photography
People power
With bleak job prospects facing its population, the Philippines has turned the search for work into an export success story by encouraging its most valuable resource -its people - to train abroad.
Affairs / Government
Can he fix it too?
Cory Booker is reviving a neglected city – and in the process the mayor of Newark has attracted the attention of influential people. With the same ‘yes we can’ attitude as Obama, he may one day even follow in the preside…