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Friday 15 October
Hotel break in Harlem
Like the rest of New York City, Harlem was hit hard by the economic downturn of the past two years.
Friday 15 October
Like the rest of New York City, Harlem was hit hard by the economic downturn of the past two years.
Thursday 19 May
There are few neighbourhoods that are as quintessentially New York as Harlem. Stretching from the top of Central Park all the way up to 155th Street, the area’s cultural diversity and history of boom and bust have led to…
Tuesday 3 November
The New York City Marathon is typically held two days before Election Day each November, ensuring a duel of citywide spectacles and plenty of timely running puns for tabloid headline writers.
From Israel’s new museum district to Poland’s secret economic hotspot via Armenia’s favourite mountain, Monocle runs the rule over five places you should keep an eye on in 2010.
The Big Apple’s annual ode to chocolate is packed with punters unwrapping exotic bars of the brown stuff from around the world. The push this year – chocolate as a sophisticated and healthy option for a nation that conti…
Saturday 5 December
When is a trade fair not a trade fair? When it’s an art fair, that’s when. The Miami Beach Convention Centre is home to such august annual jamborees as the Professional Convention Management Association and the Internati…
Films, books, music and our culture editor's monthly column.
This month, the natural world brings wood, leather and rare essences to the fore and creates unexpected combinations with chocolate-and-caramel tea and a vodka that starts life with a cow.
Films: An animated documentary about the Lebanon war, and a Russian émigré junkie in London. Books: Taschen's depiction of Soviet chic, a comic strip treatment of a nourish New York tale and a childhood memoir of Argenti…
It has been 60 years since British underwear and T-shirt label Sunspel introduced its two-ply Egyptian cotton boxer shorts to the discerning English gentleman.
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