Culture / Newspapers
How convenient
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Affairs / Retail
Your new local
In the first of a new series of benchmark reports, Monocle puts the UK’s latest convenience store concept through its paces. Can Waitrose’s new baby live up to the standards of Japan’s kings of convenience?
Design / Fashion
Happy vending
We do a little late-night shopping in Tokyo, where no matter what the time is, there’s always somewhere for a quick, post-night-on-the-tiles pick-me-up.
Culture / Retail
Novel ideas
As the big media store chains disappear, Japan’s most successful book, music and magazine seller has opened a project that challenges everyone. We visit the floors of a refreshed retail landscape.
Business / Government
Business Briefing
Zimbabwe becomes a convenient customer for unwanted US banknotes and Japan starts doling out cash to cheer people up.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Monday 5 July
The odds stacked against the street kids
Gangs of teenage boys skulk on badly lit corners and outside pitifully dingy convenience stores in Mexico’s border city of Ciudad Juárez.
Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Saturday 6 November
Europe’s greenest towns
Imagine a city where everyone lives next to a park, where people cycle to work on safe bike routes or hop on to convenient trams if it’s raining, where the air is clean and the traffic noise is, if not absent, at least…
Affairs / Environment
Model nation
A failed Italy and a Grimaldi household in shambles presents the perfect opportunity for a marriage of convenience between Liguria and Monaco in 2014. If it sounds like a storyline from our manga series, it might well be…
Business / Business Hubs
Space to Grow
Bremen has always been an independent, outward-looking city, but that didn’t help it when the port’s traditional shipbuilding trade went into decline. Now the city has reinvented itself as a hi-tech hub. With low rents, a…
Business
San Francisco
A vibrant tech scene has breathed new life into the city by the bay. A paradise for foodies, hipsters and hippies, this hilly metropolis also has a spectacular setting, with water on three sides. However, you'll want to…
Culture / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Friday 15 March
It's up to you, New York
As our New York bureau chief packs her bags ready for an equivalent posting in the Far East she has some parting words of criticism – constructive, of course.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 2 April
Flower power
Japan's 'hanami' festival celebrates the annual arrival of cherry blossom as it sweeps the country. This year may have been a bit chilly but that hasn't cooled the warm glow created by this much-loved event.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Monday 14 March
Japan focus: capital city left quaking
The regular frisson of fear that earth tremors produce in Japan.
Business / Economics
Monocolumn
Tuesday 21 August
Unfortunate acronyms
Jim O’Neil, the chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, has ALTAF. In case you’re wondering what ALTAF means, let me spell it out. ALTAF: a lot to answer for.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Thursday 6 September
A lesson in standing your ground
Back to school seldom involves hunger-striking but that’s what the start of the school year in Hong Kong looks like this autumn.
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 / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 14 September
Weekend agenda, 15/16 September
This weekend enjoy an unusual opera in New York, check out Hong Kong’s best new store, and listen out for the new album from New York band Grizzly Bear.
Affairs / Transport
Monocolumn
Tuesday 10 July
A case for cars
I’m going to stick my neck out a little here and say perhaps, just a little bit, we need to be careful not to write cars out of our cities at the rate we currently are.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Wednesday 28 December
Five things to check out over New Year
If you run out of ideas for the last days of 2011, our selection includes Woody Allen comedy screenings in London, a sunny resort destination in Thailand and an end-of-year gig in LA.
Affairs / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Thursday 14 March
Don't let the pre-made salad wraps get you down
Although the Pret A Manger juggernaut continues to rumble on you can turn a corner this lunchtime and feast on some innovative street-food instead.