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Bartenders Explain Why Cocktails Taste Better From the Bar (and How to Emulate Them)

On my walk to the bar, I rehearsed “para uno, en la barra está bien” exactly 30 times. I once read about a technique called mega-drilling, suggesting it takes 30 repetitions to cement a memory. I can’t tell you if it works, though. Because when I arrived at Baltra Bar,…

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Fashion

The Best Boxy and Heavyweight Tees for 2024

Embrace an easy fit this summer.

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Health

Cycling Frog Seltzer Is a Can of Pure Relaxation

I have high standards (pun intended), and they paid off handsomely when I found Cycling Frog.

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Clothing

Our Favorite White Sneakers for Every Budget—$100 to $1,000

We reached out to a personal stylist to help us identify the best white sneakers for every budget.

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Clothing

These Corridor Shirts Are My Summer MVPs

Menswear has often suffered from a lack of texture. If you're looking to elevate the standard blues, tans, blacks, and greens in your closet—and if you're reading this, I bet you are—then you could go bolder, experimenting with color and pattern. If you have the guts to go loud, more…

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Drinks

The Canned Coffee That Gets Me Through Each Afternoon

In my house, there are two distinct coffee moments each day: the 7 a.m. brew and the 3 p.m. treat. The former is a slow, deliberate, and tactile experience with tools I love getting my hands on—grinding beans in a Fellow Ode Brew and filling up a Moccamaster. I stand…

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Clothing

Faherty Just Dropped the Perfect Summer Jacket

Early-summer weather demands garments that can elevate the ordinary (think Memorial Day barbecues), translate sweat into sprezzatura in high heat, and withstand capricious temperature and precipitation shifts. That’s why there’s a lot to love about Faherty’s spring-summer ’24 line, which I’ve been reaching for in moments ranging from morning dog…

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Health

Cycling Frog’s THC Mints Deliver the Perfect Microdose

Cycling Frog's Wintergreen Mints contain 1mg THC and 5mg CBD. It's the perfect combo for microdosing cannabis.

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Fashion

STEAL: Save Big During Huckberry’s Annual Summer Sale

While we will always love a huge big box store annual closeout sale, there's something to be said for getting best-in-class merchandise--from brands you might have never heard of before--at a discount during said sales that might not be from big box retailers. That's where Huckberry comes in to save…

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Fashion

STEAL: Up to 40% Off Sale Items at HAY

When it comes to new brands that appreciate our modern design aesthetic as much as our love of pops of color, there's no other brand that delivers quite like HAY. Whether you're looking for furniture, kitchen essentials, seating, decor, games or, well, damn near anything else, HAY has a stylish,…

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Drinks

Jim Beam Just Launched Another New Series of Limited Whiskeys Under the Hardin Creek’s Line

As any serious whiskey drinker knows, the barrel, location, and years it ages are almost as important as the distillate that goes in at the beginning of the process. While we're not huge fans of the basic offerings that come from the James B. Beam Distilling Co.--except when it comes…

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Gear

Apple’s Vision Pro Mixed Reality AR/VR Headset Has Finally Been Unveiled

Everyone's most lauded or hated fruit-branded technology vendor has been teasing an augmented/virtual reality goggle product/experience for as long as we can remember. The Oculus Rift came and went. The Meta Quest 2 took a big hit with all the company changes. The VIVE never really took off. Now that…

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The Arc Sauna Delivers a Sensory Journey in Heat, Light, and Sound

If you're anything like us, the word sauna brings to mind the same image--a pre- or post-workout journey into a slightly more well appointed sweat lodge surrounded by a bunch of other dudes in towels. Don't let the fact that the Arc you see here is called a sauna delude…

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STEAL: Up to 65% Off Sale Items at Huckberry

Huckberry just updated their Sale section and also updated it for Father's Day with a whole slew of new clothes, footwear, gifts and gear that will fit the bill for your own personal style or a much needed updated for your old man's wardrobe. Whether you're looking for Wellen popovers…

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Food

STEAL: Up to 75% Off Sale Items at Sur La Table

If you're anything like us,you spent the better part of the years of lockdown and quarantine leveling up your knife skills, kitchen prowess and chef's scowl. Now is the perfect time to put all of that into practice... once you finally upgrade all that hardware you've been meaning to toss…

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