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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now
By Lanny Fuller
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Why Your Favorite Bartender’s Favorite Drink Is Amaro

And a few bottles of it to add to your own bar cart.

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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One-Season Wonders: Excellent Shows that were Cancelled Too Soon

Not every show that gets made is good. That’s understandable. There are a lot of hack writers willing to team up with money grubbing studios and some bad TV is destined to come from that. Mudding up art with greed is always bad. What’s worse is when every member of…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The Most Incredible Things Ever Built Out of LEGO

Ole Kirk Christiansen was an ordinary man, living an ordinary life, working an ordinary job as a carpenter. That is, until The Great Depression hit. Christiansen lost his comfortably ordinary job and needed desperately to figure out a way to make ends meet for his four children. After seeing the…

By Maxwell Barna
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7 Movies We Don’t Like Nearly as Much as Rotten Tomatoes Does

Obviously Rotten Tomatoes can’t get it right every time and that idea swings the other way as well. Sometimes movies come out and kill it on the Tomatometer, and we don’t understand why. That’s not to say we didn’t like the movie, because we often did. We just didn’t think…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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8 Moth Stories Every Man Should Listen To

Who doesn’t love a good story? Quite frankly, we can’t get enough of them. That’s why, to us, The Moth, a live series dedicated to giving ordinary people a place to tell their extraordinary stories, is one of the best programs ever. We've talked briefly about it before, but we…

By Maxwell Barna
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How to Easily Make the Best Ice Cream at Home

One day it occurred to us that ice cream makers exist, yet we keep spending tons of money on ever shrinking cartons at the grocery store. Frankly, that’s some absurd behavior. We decided to end it, or at least drastically cut back. From now on, you can consider us official…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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