Friday 3 May
M24 researcher Fernando Augusto Pacheco is off to Malmö in a couple of weeks to cover the Eurovision Song Contest – and he can't wait. Now he just needs to convince everyone else that it's the equivalent of the World Cup…
The redesign for the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, a new collection from furniture designer Gesa Hansen, plus a Japanese architect who relocates neglected rural buildings to a new life in the city.
Bookstores in Malmö, Sydney and Washington DC update us on bestsellers and John Walters: editor of graphic design publication Eye, joins us in the studio.
How to keep a city clean: we meet a London street sweeper, learn why Malmö ditched rubbish trucks, and look at Milan’s graffiti problem.
We look back at Argentina’s “Dirty War” period, talk mayoral scandals with our correspondents in Toronto and Washington, and take a whirlwind Friday-night tour of Reykjavik, Amsterdam, and Malmö.
We ask the foreign editor of Haberturk newspaper about the PKK’s involvement in Iraq, talk TV advertising with Brian Steinberg of Variety, and have live reactions to the day’s semi-finals with our Eurovision correspondent…
A talk with one of the few journalists to has covered the state of Western Sahara’s “forgotten war”, we also ask how rare colour footage of 1920s London has shifted perceptions of the British capital, and go live to Malmo…
A pioneering art gallery project in Oslo, a Q & A with Brussels-based publisher Andreas Qvist and a sleek new digi-radio.
Norwegian outerwear firm Norrøna opens its first retail outlet in Oslo and Kitsune pops up in Tokyo.
Emmerys is the kind of food “chain” that we would like to see in every country. Run by Per Brun, each outlet is individual, each product high-quality. It is a unique Nordic mix of chic 7-11 meets Dean & Deluca. Yet its…
No matter how much money and effort is put into marketing your city, if you want tourists to visit and everyone to know its name, nothing compares to having a popular TV series being filmed in your city. Monocle looks at…
Monocle island-hops to the Maldives, visits a Stockholm restaurant with no menu and finds the best coffees from New Zealand to San Francisco.
Cannes’ annual MIPIM property market is a chance for countries and cities to show off their grand design visions. And, despite the economic crisis, it remains a fascinating milieu where mayors, speculators and architects…
Chile’s first female president, Michelle Bachelet, was tortured as a student under Pinochet’s rule and lived in exile for nearly five years. As her term comes to an end, Monocle talks to the popular leader about male cha…
An eyewear boutique in New York with new and vintage frames, nautical jumpers for women and a new menswear store in Stockholm.
Although the European nut market was worth over €8bn in 2007, consumption there is peanuts compared to the Middle East. But Al Rifai, the Lebanese ‘Rolls-Royce of nut companies’, is expanding into Europe’s underdeveloped…
We turn the spotlight on the flight route from London to Baghdad, the ambitions of Nairobi's new senator, and the latest from Bamako.
Find the cream of culture with our guide to the best books, films, music, festivals and exhibitions this season.
Global leaders may be lacking in ambition but that hasn’t stopped us doing the heavy lifting for them. Monocle presents 10 grand projects that would make a big difference.
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