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MONDAY MUSIC: FRANÇOISE HARDY

Monday, January 7, 2013

Hearing by chance the addictive Träume in a store last year made me look into Françoise Hardy a little, which is well worth the time. And just as good a start as any for Monday Music into 2013.

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Nevermind the New Year’s Resolutions – quitting smoking/drinking, eating healthier, traveling more or finding love –  go wild in Studio 54 way of celebrating New Year’s Eve, just like the old times, and dance like Fred Astaire!
‘I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, [...]

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YESTERDAY’S SUN

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Tomorrow night, one of our friends who has been with us from the very early days, namely the photographer Uri Gershuni who supplied the beautifully eerie series of a deserted Tel Aviv for our fourth issue with Israeli writer Zeruya Shalev, will be showing recent work and his new publication Yesterday’s Sun in Berlin – [...]

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POP SONGS

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Beck is back, and not in any way we would have imagined. For his latest album, Beck teamed up with our favourite publishing house McSweeney’s (founded, of course, by Captain Dave Eggers, gracing the cover of mono.kultur #25), which is due for release in early December. OK, you say, so why would someone like Beck [...]

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VONNEGUT WISDOMS

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Kurt Vonnegut, that titan of American literature, would have turned 90 last Sunday, had he not died of head trauma after falling down a flight of stairs five years ago, which seems like peculiarly appropriate death for someone who has dedicated his life to the blackest of satire. So it goes. He left behind not [...]

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HUSTLE AND BUSTLE

Sunday, October 14, 2012

1920s… Years of Charleston and Flappers like movie star Louise Brooks; cabarets and Dada! After being overwhelmed by Mike Nelson’s work in the newly discovered abandoned cabaret theater from 1920s in Berlin’s Gartenstrasse, bumping into Thames and Hudson’s new publication Berlin in the 20s was a nice coincidence. The book is starting with a description [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: MANY OF THEM

Saturday, October 6, 2012

There are probably a good dozen or so fashion magazines who are filling the gap left by Elein Fleiss’ departure from Purple magazine and its subsequent transformation into the self-obsessed fashion glossy it has become since. While one might debate whether that is a void that needs filling or if we shouldn’t just let times [...]

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What’s the point in wasting time/on people that you’ll never know

Friday, October 5, 2012

She’s not quite Trish Keenan, but Melody certainly got melodies.

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PAST PRESENT FUTURE

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

It’s rare that architecture photography manages to make a comment not on architecture, but the passing of time, an international crisis and a current sports event all at the same time – as does Jamie McGregor Smith’s series Borrow, Build Abandon on the desolate state of the sites of the Olympic Games in 2004 in [...]

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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HERB LESTER

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Like anybody, we love city guides and maps, and even if traveling to a particular place might have to remain a dream for an unspecified period of time, just reading about it will send a little tingle of excitement down our spine. Anyway, city guides are probably the ultimate fun book project, and what a [...]

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