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Hospitality

Small wonder

Roka, an intimate ryokan, is now welcoming art lovers on the island of Naoshima. It offers exquisite interiors, fine food and soothing open-air baths in each of its 11 rooms.

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Roka owner Shintaro Sasaki performing tea ceremony in traditional Japanese interior with wood beams and tatami
Media

Affairs

Independent Russian news outlet Meduza and Titi Ogufere, Nigeria’s design pioneer.

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Titi Ogufere seated wearing black turtleneck against neutral background
Media

Right on cue

Behind the camera trained on TV presenter Charlie Pickering stands a multi-talented team who ensure that ‘The Weekly’, Australia’s lively news round-up, is well researched, informative and, most of all, funny.

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Charlie Pickering and production team members pose in The Weekly television studio set
Entertainment

Taking charge

The actress who plays Danish politician Birgitte Nyborg in TV series ‘Borgen’ on resurrecting the character for a new season.

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Sidse Babett Knudsen standing in doorway of ornate gold-framed glass doors with geometric patterned walls
Media

Happy medium

As Beijing tightens its grip on Hong Kong, broadcaster ViuTV is offering its residents some much-needed escapism.

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Professional television camera displaying monitor screen showing presenter during filming of ViuTV food talk show
Books

Continental drift

A Dutch-born immigrant to the Ligurian capital, best-selling author Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer knows first-hand that our identity is tied to our sense of place – and of history.

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Elegant hotel lobby with marble columns, crystal chandeliers, ornate ceiling details and classic furniture
Culture

Comic timing

France has an august tradition of homegrown comic-book heroes but its rising stars now are Japanese.

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Comic timing
Music

Hitting peaks

From a soundtrack to sisterhood to the secret history of Brazilian dance movements, we survey the essential cultural high points of the coming month.

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Two people sitting close together on a red leather couch in an intimate scene from Standing Up
Urbanism

Comment

Andrew Tuck finds something extraordinary in everyday images of the urbane past.

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Two women in a small Rytecraft Scootacar miniature vehicle next to a regular car on a London street

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