Culture / Entertainment
16 August 2013
Weekend Agenda 17/18 August
This weekend get closer to Ai Weiwei in Toronto, see a fusion of cultures in Hong Kong and rock out on the banks of a river in Trondheim.
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Design / Hotels
Total hotel
The new Ace Hotel in east London is intended to not only meet the usual criteria of offering rooms for guests but also provide non-paying local-neighbourhood residents with a place to gather and creative businesses with some much-appreciated opportunities.
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Business / Education
Changing times
The MBA has always been a target for executives looking to rise up the ranks. But be it globalisation, economic instability or the tech boom, the business world is constantly shifting in both its fortunes and its focus.
Culture / Film
66th Locarno Film Festival
Locarno is the romantic heart of the film festival circuit. Monocle put a rose in its buttonhole and sat in its own director's chair on the shores of Lake Maggiore to assess the aesthetic and commercial importance of the…
Business / Film
Home movie
Monocle gets behind the scenes of Brunei’s first-ever commercial feature film as local artists look to establish an indigenous movie industry to rival their Asian neighbours and make a splash on the international stage.
Edits / Monocle
Mediterraneo — 2013
Summer recipes, sunny neighbourhoods and sizzling reports: just some of the features to get you hot under the collar in our annual Mediterraneo newspaper.
Business / Sport
Surf haven - Ericeira
Ericeira, a small fishing village north of Lisbon on the Portuguese coast, is also a world-class surfing town. People come from as far away as Australia for great waves, good seafood and a relaxed "old Portugal" feeling…
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Affairs
The Monocle Weekly, 215
Sunday 18 August
Our original Sunday show is hosted by Robert Bound and Andrew Tuck, covering key interviews of the week and looking ahead to the next seven days.
Culture
The Review, 96
Saturday 17 August
This week we will be discussing the latest presentation of the Bolshoi in London and new plays in NY with our regular theatre critic Matt Wolf. We also look at what's coming up in Cardiff and check out some new Brazilian…
Culture
The Stack, 51
Saturday 17 August
We talk to the woman who stocks the magazine stands at Britain’s most prestigious bookshop Foyles and meet the man who started a slow-journalism revolution: the editor of Delayed Gratification magazine. We’ll also be get…
Affairs
The Curator, 96
Saturday 17 August
This week we go back to basics and find out how to make your own butter and bacon, as we meet the author of a book about food DIY. We also leave the smart phone at home to visit the ancient maps of the British Museum and…
Culture / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 16 August
Weekend Agenda 17/18 August
This weekend get closer to Ai Weiwei in Toronto, see a fusion of cultures in Hong Kong and rock out on the banks of a river in Trondheim.
Affairs
The Monocle Daily, 470
Friday 16 August
Regular check-ins and live interviews from the US and all across the Americas add to the mix of guests and analysis from our studios in London.
Affairs
The Globalist: Asia, 100
Friday 16 August
This one-hour show airs at 20.00 London time and focuses on the news agenda in Asia and Oceania, including a review of the region’s front pages.
Edits
The Menu, 96
Friday 16 August
We visit a pop-up restaurant in Berlin that is exceptionally high-end, speak to author Tim Hayward about his book on food DIY and sample some great Argentinian boutique wines.
Affairs
The Briefing, 467
Friday 16 August
As Egypt braces itself for further protest we examine the challenges facing reporters there with Mada Masr's deputy editor Amira Salah-Ahmed, as well as assessing international reactions with our foreign editor Steve Blo…
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 16 August
The old ones are the best
A 27-year-old questioning whether his parents are having more fun than he is? About as surprising, it turns out, as a 72-year-old in a bikini...Recently I did an interview with social commentator Peter York in which I asked whether young people are becoming more prudish, seeing as they are drinking less and wearing more conservative swimwear on the beach.
Affairs
Midori House, 468
Friday 16 August
Chatham House’s Xenia Dormandy sets the day’s news agenda and Fawaz Gerges explains why the crisis in Egypt may be a wake-up call to Tunisia’s Islamists. We also round up the top transport stories with Tristan McAllister…
Affairs
The Globalist, 470
Friday 16 August
We speak to an Egyptian activist for his views on the violence gripping the country, find out what's behind possible co-operation between Iraqi Kurds and the government in Baghdad and review this morning's front pages with…
Edits / Property
East Austin
Issue 66
An influx of entrepreneurs has given East Austin a new lease of life, filling the border town with an artisan scene that’s disproving many of its myths.
Affairs
The Monocle Daily, 469
Thursday 15 August
We hear from some of those who witnessed Wednesday’s bloodshed on the streets of Cairo. We also ask why abductions of prominent women in Afghanistan seem to be on the rise, whether prisons in the UK and the US are fit for…
Affairs
The Globalist: Asia, 99
Thursday 15 August
As the Muslim Brotherhood plan to march we get the latest from the streets of Cairo from Abdel-Rahman Hussein, and find out how the US’s foreign policy may yet change with Geoff Dyer of the Financial Times. Scott Lucas of…