Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Sunday 11 October
Politics, protests and pop music
Kenya is welcoming a procession of international visitors this month that indicate both the depths it has fallen to and the heights it could once again reach.
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Culture / Music
Taiwan hit factory
Despite years of turbulence between Taiwan and China, this island's pop culture leaves the mainland standing. From idols to protest singers via television talent shows, Taipei pop is the country's new heavy industry.
Affairs / Music
Monocolumn
Sunday 28 March
Kenya’s new pop video hero
His name is Makmende. An African version of Shaft, mixed with a bit of Chuck Norris, he is the karate-chopping, damsel-rescuing star of the new video by Kenya’s Just-a-Band.
Culture / Music
Korean Music Industry
Monocle reports on how Korea's pop music industry is the country's most potent weapon in the global soft power stakes.
Culture / Media
Media briefing
MySpace Music has pioneered interactive pop promos in which fans can upload themselves into music videos by chosen artists, including Florence and the Machine, Alicia Keys and 50 Cent. Fans will appear statically: pictures…
Culture / Books
Culture briefing
Originally published in 1947, this English translation of Hans Fallada’s German classic offers a bleak glimpse into daily life under the Nazis. Told through a thronging cast of sub-proletarian swindlers and survivors, the…
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Friday 1 July
Weekend agenda: 2/3 July
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection, including pop up shops, pop up restaurants, and an anonymous music producer’s long-awaited record release.
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 / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 29 June
Weekend agenda, 30 June/1 July
This weekend’s highlights include Everlane’s pop-up store in New York, a music festival in London celebrating African roots music’s worldwide appeal and Hong Kong Design Institute’s graduation show.
Culture / Arts
Culture Briefing
Roman Polanski's new drama The Ghost, music picks from gospel to "geyser-pop", the new books we've been reading.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 1 June
Weekend agenda, 2/3 June
This weekend’s highlights include the DVD release of Lena Dunham’s indie flick Tiny Furniture, a retrospective of pop art from Tom Wesselman and the ever-entertaining Primavera Sound music festival in Barcelona.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 10 December
Weekend agenda, 10/11 December
This weekend’s highlights include a new pop-up hotel in sunny Mexico, a craft festival in Japan and a music fest to get you out of those pre-Christmas blues.
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…
Culture / Film
Monocolumn
Friday 12 August
Weekend agenda: 13/14 August
Monocle’s weekend global events guide includes a pop-up menswear shop in London, indie film Littlerock showing in New York and LA, Helsinki’s summer music festival, a tour of regeneration in New Orleans and an exhibition…
Midori House, episode 87
Is Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki proving too authoritarian? We discuss the relationship between politics and pop music. Plus, the story behind Pakistan’s first Oscar.
Culture / Society
Less waltz more disco
The Austrian capital is experiencing a second cultural wave but this time, instead of opera and art museums, it’s electronic music and pop-up galleries causing all the buzz.
Culture / Arts
Culture briefing
FILM: Crooked Turkish politicians and tough French schools keep us glued to the screen. BOOKS: A macabre tale of suspense, a modern-day *Treasure Island*, and the latest in Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon series. ART: A…
Culture / Arts
Culture briefing
Film: A war-time Danish thriller and Pete Postlewaite in a climate change drama-doc. Books: A Bosnian refugee's memoir of being a teenager in Britain and a troubled love story played out in rural Dorset, plus a true account…
Culture / Music
Culture briefing
Books: Re-issue of a post-apocalyptic classic, photos of New York store fronts and a graphic trip through neurotic adolescence. Film: Two delectable French thrillers: L'instinct de Mort and Pour Elle. Music: Electro-rock…