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Your New Summer Wardrobe, On Us
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The $1,500 Garden Gear Giveaway

Enter for a chance to win beautifully designed garden gear. Plus, two new books on stylish, eco-minded living.

By Cool Material
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The Gentlemen’s Trip: A Field Guide

Everything you need to turn a guys trip into something better.

By Lanny Fuller
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5-Star Golf Trip to Ireland. On Us.

Championship greens. 5-star resorts and spas. Irish coastlines. Rental car. Airfare to Dublin. Zero bill. Just takes an email to enter.

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The History of Headphones

Surprisingly, not everyone wants to hear our music. When we were pumping our LCD Soundsystem mixtape, others in the office said they couldn’t “concentrate” and they “wished we were fired.” For this, and for many other reasons, headphones are an absolute necessity in our daily lives. It was long before…

By Mike Newman
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14 Better Bottle Openers

There’s a world of beer we want to drink, and a lot of it comes in bottles. While you could open these 12-ouncers with a flat surface, a key, or—gasp!—your teeth, we prefer the simplest, least dentally damaging method: the bottle opener. Now that doesn’t mean you need a plastic…

By Cool Material Guest
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Inside the Studio that Makes the World’s Most Interesting Furniture

There's a small group of mad furniture scientists hard at work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It's a tiny group that form a company you've probably never heard of., and they're building the world's most interesting furniture. If there's one piece from RockPaperRobot you might be familiar with, it's the Float…

By Mike Newman
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10 Foreign Movies Every Guy Should See

We're not quite sure why, but when we think of foreign movies we immediately think of French romance flicks. Pass. This is dumb since there are a ton of solid foreign movies for dudes. In fact, if you don't mind a bit of reading with your movie watching, there are some…

By Mike Newman
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Who Are the Bands Depicted in These Portraits?

In Rock Heads, Ludovic Ismael teamed up with Nicolas Delille to create a series of portraits with somewhat hidden meanings. Look through the short gallery and see which rock bands the artists are referring to in each image. We'd say three were easy and two are still giving us issues.

By Mike Newman
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