Robert Bound
Reel estate
If your town needs a tourism boost, a blockbusting film set on your street is a sure way to bring in punters. Cities are offering big incentives for their moment on screen.
Town criers
What is the future of the city? Eleven writers explore the battles and pleasures of metropolitan living, from Detroit’s empty highways to London’s sewers, in a survey of urban hope and possibility.
Show starters
Worth billions but well below the radar, the lounge act is a fascinating and uncharted universe. From Las Vegas to Tokyo, Monocle explores an undervalued and consummate talent pool of professional entertainers.
Culture
A round-up of the latest cultural highlights, from a re-issued sci-fi classic and photos of New York to French thrillers, new music from Wave Machines and Camera Obscura, and art world news.
Culture
This issue: book reviews include a catalogue of a love affair and George Steiner's essays. Plus, films 'Sounds Like Teen Spirit' and 'Let the Right One In', and new art shows.
Great Sheikhs
Abu Dhabi is built on oil but the city is morphing into a technology and culture superpower. Who are the visionaries on the ground turning dreams into bricks and mortar?
Just so hot right now
Often overlooked next to Dubai, Sharjah’s boundary-breaking art biennial is forcing a rethink of Arab art. An optimistic show with brilliant young women as its driving force, it's the real heart of art.
Media
Cartoons meet car-making as Tokyo animators move in with Toyota. Plus, we ask book publishers Harper Studio why it's betting on blogs, and preview tactile new photography book.
Media
It's all credit to the Wall Street Journal and its new payment scheme, action stations for Indian financial news and the best of Italian publishing.
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
Sounds Like Teen Spirit, Jamie Jay Johnson's warm and witty documentary following four contestants in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, is a sure contender as one of the strongest factual films of 2009. Monocle's…
