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Why Your Favorite Bartender’s Favorite Drink Is Amaro
By Christopher Osburn
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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

By Cool Material
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Bar Cart Bracket: The Best Whiskies for March Madness

Whether you’re toasting a perfect upset or coping with a completely busted bracket, these bottles have you covered.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Nick Offerman Wants You To Drink More Lagavulin

We caught up with the distiller’s number one fan to talk woodworking, craftsmanship, and the best way to enjoy Scotch.

By Beau Hayhoe
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5 Haunted Airbnbs You Can Stay In This Halloween

When we think of Halloween, we don’t think of stale candy corn and store-bought costumes. We think of gory horror movies, haunted houses, and things that go bump in the night. But it's not always enough to limit that stuff to pop culture and secondhand stories.  Sometimes we want to…

By Maxwell Barna
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8 Camera Bags For Trips That Require More Than Your Phone

The bag is usually the least glamorous part of photography. We’ve seen so many cumbersome, bulky, inefficient designs we’d almost resigned ourselves to wrapping our gear in bubble wrap and sticking it in a duffel bag. That’s about when we started looking for better camera bags and, surprisingly, finding them.…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The Best National Parks No One Talks About

When people think of the National Park Service, they think of Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and Yosemite. But there are 417 sites across the country overseen by the National Park Service, which means there are 414 that most people don’t think to visit. In a selfish way, we like that. It…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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10 Art and Print Shops Every Guy Should Know

You probably have at least one naked wall in your home or apartment. If you've been searching for the right thing to slap on it, skip the crowded IKEA aisles and big box store selection. The problem with the prints from those shops is they're on the walls of so…

By Mike Newman
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7 Toothbrushes Worthy of a Stylish Home

A man's home says a lot about him. It's often in the smallest details where the biggest impression is made. That's why we've always been proponents of attractive versions of even the most mundane objects. Like toothbrushes. Yup. Toothbrushes. If you're still relying on the freebie from the dentist, perhaps it's time for…

By Mike Newman
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