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Saint Etienne
A band that shares a few of Monocle’s own city-centric obsessions, St Etienne has mined the rainy pavements, smoky cafés and sweaty nightclubs of London to tell cinematic stories of life, love and iconic…
Ferozsons bookshops
A flick through the paperbacks on the shelves of Lahore's oldest bookshop.
Culture
Beat the winter blues with our international film-festival round-up. We also review new books on China's migrants, Parisian art from Jeremy Deller and fresh music from ambient's elder statesmen.
New woman
Veteran broadcaster Irena Lesnevskaya, editor-in-chief of opposition news magazine The New Times since 2007, is a Russian dissident who has stayed in her country to speak out against Kremlin corruption.
Art market
Hip-hop's money folders sell their rocks in New York and modern art titans get hammered in Japan.
Azteca camera
To round off our series on the foreign media’s coverage of the US presidential campaigns, we talk to Armando Guzmán of Mexico’s TV Azteca about crossed wires and counter immigration.
The Big Frieze
A London October used to be an uneventful time in the art sales calendar. Auction house Sotheby’s saved its strength for New York. But then, in 2003, Frieze arrived and changed everything.
Just for the record
In 1997, four former DJs and vinyl enthusiasts managed to get hold of a record pressing machine. Today, small independent studios and big record companies alike are queueing up for Vinylium’s services.
Hit the decks
Toss the MP3 player and turn your living room into a sonorific salon with the following hardware.
War on truth
In the South Ossetia conflict, both Georgia and Russia managed media access, making the truth elusive. Monocle’s correspondents reported from both sides to navigate the maze of misinformation and reveal the real story.
