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The Coolest Places to Watch the World Cup Around the Globe
By Lanny Fuller
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On Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, 20 Years Later

And how horror went from critically hated to the latest Cannes "it" genre.

By Andy Crump
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The Rise of Prediction Culture

From sports to pop culture, Polymarket is changing how we engage with what happens next.

By Cool Material
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Italy From Home

How to stock your pantry, fridge, and bar cart like an Italian.

By Kaitlyn Rosati
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Waterford’s Organic Irish Whiskey Shares More About How It’s Made Than You Ever Thought To Know

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. Sometimes it feels like information overload with all of the details one can find on a particular whiskey they like. Others, it feels like the key to fully appreciating…

By Nickolaus Hines
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Fashion
The 7 Best Spring Jackets Perfect For Layering

It’s easy to focus on the negative aspects of spring. It’s wet. It’s rainy. It’s grey. It’s cold in the morning and hot in the afternoon. It’s muddy. It’s, in a word, confusing. For many, spring is an impossible time to get their outfits just right. It’s too hot to…

By Brett Braley
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Fashion
The One Pair of Sunglasses That Work For Just About Every Guy

It’s easy to look through magazines or scroll through Instagram today and see hundreds – no, thousands – of fashionable men who are wearing the latest trends, the biggest brands, and the best clothing. From Harry Styles to Timothée Chalamet, the modern man's feeds are inundated with actors who toe…

By Brett Braley
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Entertainment
Video Games That Are as Fun to Watch as They Are to Play

I don’t trust people when they say they like watching video games. I’ve tried that part of it, where I watch someone else play a game, and all I can think of is how badly they’re messing everything up and how differently I’d be playing and how wrong they are…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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If You Enjoy ‘The Last of Us’ Then You Need To Play This Other Post-Apocalypse Game

When everyone was first going on and on about the first Covid lockdown only lasting two weeks, I bought a PS4. I’ve read and watched enough on apocalyptic historical events to know that even fully functioning, politically healthy countries have insane difficulty in controlling new disease. Since the United States…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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