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Fracking In The USA: How Shale Could Reshape The World's Energy Order
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Fracking In The USA: How Shale Could Reshape The World's Energy Order

The International Energy Agency dropped several bombshells: America has overtaken Russia in gas, will surpass Saudi Arabia in oil by 2020, and become a net energy exporter by 2030. We examine what made it possible.

29 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Symphonies of Strife: Composer Malek Jandali on Scoring Syria's Youngest Victims
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Symphonies of Strife: Composer Malek Jandali on Scoring Syria's Youngest Victims

Classically trained in Damascus and now based in Atlanta, Syrian composer and pianist Malek Jandali draws on his country's storied past. Raya Jalabi finds an artist forever determined to teach, touch and move his audience.

29 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Roads Less Travelled: Daring Escapes for the Truly Intrepid Traveller
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Roads Less Travelled: Daring Escapes for the Truly Intrepid Traveller

From Socotra, the surreal Yemeni archipelago adrift off the Horn of Africa amid pirate-haunted seas, we chart the remote, untamed destinations that reward only the boldest and most curious of modern explorers.

26 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Gathering Crowds: How Crowdsourced Maps Are Quietly Redrawing the Connected World
people · Tech

Gathering Crowds: How Crowdsourced Maps Are Quietly Redrawing the Connected World

From Kenya's pioneering Ushahidi platform, built to trace post-election violence, to tracking oil spills and earthquakes, crowdsourced reporting maps are transforming how communities gather, share and act upon information in real time.

22 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Quiet Confidence: McLaren's MP4-12C Spider and Coupé Stake a Supercar Claim
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Quiet Confidence: McLaren's MP4-12C Spider and Coupé Stake a Supercar Claim

In terms of pedigree, McLaren is almost without equal. With their sights set on producing the finest supercars in nearly every category, we would not bet against them, not after sampling the MP4-12C Spider and coupé.

21 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Food Fad: An Evening of Conversation Where Every Story Was a Meal
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Food Fad: An Evening of Conversation Where Every Story Was a Meal

Like guests trading horror tales in an old black-and-white film, our companions spoke only of food. Across an unexpected dinner, a student and two IT experts reveal how cuisine has become this generation's abiding obsession.

18 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

A Beautifully Produced Look at the Dedicated Indoor Ski Community of Dubai
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A Beautifully Produced Look at the Dedicated Indoor Ski Community of Dubai

In this excellent documentary Chad Sayers and Chad Manley go looking for the one of the world’s strangest and most illogical of ski environments: Ski Dubai. In the midst of a desert city of dizzying ambition, this ‘local hill’ climbs 60 vertical metres out of a luxury …

16 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Fashion Forward: How Luxury Labels Are Embracing the Digital Age
people · fashion

Fashion Forward: How Luxury Labels Are Embracing the Digital Age

The department-store pilgrimage for spring/summer collections is over. From Burberry's reimagined Regent Street flagship to inventive campaigns, fashion houses are dissolving the boundary between reality and technology to enter the twenty-first century.

15 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Tahir, Who? Designer Tahir Sultan, the Indo-Kuwaiti Poster Boy for Cosmopolitanism
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Tahir, Who? Designer Tahir Sultan, the Indo-Kuwaiti Poster Boy for Cosmopolitanism

Half-Kuwaiti, half-Indian and at home across three continents, Tahir Sultan brings an architect's training to a fashion career. Govind Dhar meets a rising designer in his New Delhi home, marked for success and household fame.

13 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Bounty Without Borders: How Arab Capital Is Building Global Luxury Brands
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Bounty Without Borders: How Arab Capital Is Building Global Luxury Brands

Behind the glitter lies a quieter tale of ambition. From Bahrain's Investcorp steering Tiffany towards global expansion, Arab investment houses are increasingly acquiring famous names and helping carry them triumphantly across the world.

11 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

people · culture

Don't Judge a Book: The Pretensions and Pleasures of Fine Wine

We invoke Bordeaux and Bourgogne as though born to them, scouring shelves for something suitably foreign before dinner. A wry meditation on wine snobbery, anxious hospitality and the theatre that surrounds the simple act of drinking well.

8 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke

Past Present: Olivier Gougeon and Marie-Hélène Mouawad Revive Old Beirut at Villa Clara
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Past Present: Olivier Gougeon and Marie-Hélène Mouawad Revive Old Beirut at Villa Clara

In creating Villa Clara, husband-and-wife team Olivier Gougeon and Marie-Hélène Mouawad have not only brought a little of old Beirut back to life, they have turned it into a delicious taste of the times.

6 Mar 2013 By Official Bespoke