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My Waterloo

20 April 2017

With Ukraine’s staging of Eurovision in trouble, a Swedish superstar was asked to step in. How could he ever refuse?

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News network France 24 is a broadcaster working across three languages in order to deliver a nuanced French view of global affairs. With its ever-increasing reach, it’s a channel catching the little details that competitors…

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Culture

17 April 2014

The films, books and bands keeping us entertained this month.

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Culture

17 May 2008

This month's latest art, music, book and film releases.

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Art corps

17 November 2007

Looking forward to 2008, we asked five creative contenders to peer into their cultural crystal balls and explain what they see. From a web guru with designs for life to an established art collector going out on a wing in…

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Asia

17 April 2007

Singapore's wheel of fortune and South Korea's big game plan.

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Culture

25 April 2013

Books, films and music to make a date for, plus our culture editor's monthly musings.

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The ideas factory

17 January 2013

Great art transforms thought with ideas and emotions. But that effortless feeling as a bold new work hits the page, store or screen, is down to some very real individuals who link inspiration to industry. Here are a few of…

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Creative futures

17 November 2011

We’ve asked five artists, musicians and writers to tell us what they’ll be up to in the coming year and what will keep their creative juices flowing.

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Shopping & entertainment

13 May 2005

Both the fashion sense and the spending power of residents in Chengdu have made this city in Sichuan a serious contender in terms of high-end retail, with plenty of international brands choosing it as one of their top picks…

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The Monocle Arts Review - TV: Fernando Augusto Pacheco

3 February 2016

Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco reviews Brazilian TV shows, including the new season of ‘Amor & Sexo’, a show about sex and relationships, and the perennial ‘Silvio Santos’. Plus: a healthy cooking show with Bela Gil.

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The Monocle Arts Review - Theatre: Dominic Maxwell

27 January 2016

On this week’s theatre review we discuss Alistair McGowan’s role as a coma patient trying to piece together the last 10 years of his life in ‘4000 Days’ and we head to the Lyrics Hammersmith theatre for a reprise of the…

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Special Features - Anne Zouroudi for Mediterraneo

28 July 2014

Anne Zouroudi, author of the Hermes Diaktoros series, has written a thrilling short story exclusively for Mediterraneo

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Come on down

18 January 2018

What’s the secret to game shows’ enduring popularity? Is it the triumph of ‘the everyman’ – the idea that anyone, of any race, age, gender or background, could win a fortune? Or is it that people just need some silly fun…

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Show offs

20 October 2016

Monocle visits the annual trade fairs where craft aficionados are upholding traditions such as barrel-making and basket-weaving and forward-looking ceramicists are reinventing the humble tile.

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From Sofia, with love

17 May 2009

Bulgarian songstress Lili Ivanova’s career began in 1963 and she soon became the country’s biggest star under the communists. Today she’s just as famous and is widely revered as a champion of the nation.