Watches & Wonders 2026: The Highlights

From Cartier's automotive revival to JLC's stratospheric tourbillon to Roger Dubuis's celestial calendar, the year's biggest watch fair reminded us that restraint and ambition are not mutually exclusive

How Angus Maxfield Turned a WhatsApp Group Into Dubai’s Favourite Run Club

When your running plans finally make it out of the group chat. Exponentially.

Wild Grapes: Songs Fermented in Casablanca’s Shadows

Morocco’s music scene is overflowing with talent—but without structure, the harvest ferments in the dark

Ghorba: Songs of Immigration

The story of how exile, estrangement, and movement turn into rhythm, resonance, and new musical worlds

Beirut Cutting Through The Noise

A city constantly folding in on itself is giving way to another new generation of independent musicians

The Living Archive and The Enduring Ephemeral

Radical ways of negotiating collective memory

The Core of it All

Internet aesthetics as tools of resistance, from driftcore to corecore and other algorithmic undergrounds