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Rolling stone

17 May 2019

Despite challenges both past and present, canny redevelopments, scrappy fundraising and passionate residents have ensured this city’s regeneration has rock-solid foundations.

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Rock the house

19 October 2017

Having restored the sheen to Sotheby’s rusty balance sheet, new CEO Tad Smith is reimagining the historic institution’s future by embracing digital.

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Iraq has plans to build a shipping route that’s a cheaper alternative to the Suez Canal, starting with a port just south of Basra. It’s the biggest project ever undertaken by Iraq but will the war-ravaged city’s residents…

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Progressive rock

18 October 2018

Gibraltar voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU. With the rest of the UK set on leaving, what does that mean for the diminutive British territory?

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Little Britain

17 March 2009

For the first in a new series on outposts of opportunity we visit Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands, the British territory best known for sheep and its 1982 war with Argentina. Now oil and tourists are making this…

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Deity dancing

21 September 2017

Part-sermon, part-rock gig, a new breed of church service is spreading God’s word – and boosting record sales.

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Mountain high

17 August 2007

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…

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Observation

21 June 2012

As the wall fills up with pages for the new issue and plans are made for the impending Country Fayre and the next Monocle Café, Midori House goes holiday happy at the approach of summer. Or it will if we can stop arguing…

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Feeding John Malkovich

20 October 2011

The Hollywood actor, director and fashion designer shares his ‘last meal’ in a restaurant built into the rocks near his home in Provence.

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View to a thrill

26 September 2024

How a James Bond-inspired design brief inspired a home atop a rock in an Oslo suburb and brought its owners closer to nature.

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Culture

17 August 2007

Offbeat literary recommendations; Monocle music for September; rocking' in Iran and T-shirt devotees get their own glossy title.

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The Sessions at Midori House - Happyness

30 May 2015

This week’s session comes from London-based slacker-rock group Happyness, who hit the Midori House studios to play tracks from their debut record ‘Weird Little Birthday’.

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After the blast

25 March 2021

Last summer an explosion rocked Beirut. This month we asked our correspondent, who reported for us in the days following the blast, to return to those streets to meet the people rebuilding the Lebansese capital.

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How to be a band in 2010

17 October 2009

Rock stars are now essentially CEOs of their own small (and big businesses). Learn how to harness patrons, sponsorship and the digital revolution, and you could soon be selling out, without selling out.

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Inventory no. 76

19 August 2014

From primeval mezcal to a primate-themed panacea, we bring you a menagerie of little wonders from around the globe.

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Idol worship

19 November 2015

A contemporary-art world ‘rock star’, Franklin Sirmans arrives in Miami as the new director of the Pérez Art Museum intent on creating a focal point for the city’s creativity. He spoke to Monocle about Art Basel’s ongoing…