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Inside the “World’s Fair of Footwear,” Where Shoemaking Gets Obsessive
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Inside the “World’s Fair of Footwear,” Where Shoemaking Gets Obsessive
By Andy Vasoyan
Shop the Big Screen: The ’70s Spy Style of Wild Horse Nine Shop the Big Screen: The ’70s Spy Style of Wild Horse Nine
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Shop the Big Screen: The ’70s Spy Style of Wild Horse Nine

The Tie Bar teamed up with Searchlight Pictures on a capsule collection that brings the retro wardrobe into the real world.

By Beau Hayhoe
The Cool Gift Guides of 2026 The Cool Gift Guides of 2026
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The Cool Gift Guides of 2026

We made a list. Check it as often as you like.

By Cool Material
Wisconsin Is Making a Strong Case for Your 2027 Golf Trip Wisconsin Is Making a Strong Case for Your 2027 Golf Trip
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Wisconsin Is Making a Strong Case for Your 2027 Golf Trip

Kohler is doubling down on its reputation as a world-class golf destination with a new course, new places to stay, and even more reasons to visit.

By Cool Material
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The 10 Best Shows of 2018 You Didn’t Watch

Once again, it was a great year for television. Excellent shows dropped left, right, and center all year, giving us plenty of entertainment. Too much even. As the year winds down, take advantage of your free time (hopefully) and watch the shows you didn’t have time for. These are the…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Lava Rocks and Glacier Water: How Reyka Vodka Makes Some of the Purest Vodka in the World

Reyka Vodka has garnered a reputation as being one of the purest vodkas in the world. Of course, that’s quite a distinction; one some more discernible boozehounds might find suspect. We traveled with the Reyka team to their distillery, located roughly an hour north of Reykjavík in the beautiful rural…

By Maxwell Barna
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10 Cocktails for Your Thanksgiving Table

We don’t know about you, but drinking beer with Thanksgiving dinner never quite felt right. Don’t get us wrong, we’ll happily do it, but we’ll do it with a slight guilt. There was already so much time spent on the dinner, what’s another fifteen minutes or so for batch mixing…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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9 Real-World Locations You Can Explore in Video Games

Video games have always been a form of vicarious travel. Halo takes you to alien planets. Alan Wake shows off the Pacific Northwest’s capacity for ghost stories. Tomb Raider takes you across the modern world and into ancient ruins. Only thing? All those places are fictional. Some games do the exact opposite.…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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11 Easy Cocktails that Don’t Suck

The downside of the recent cocktail resurgence is there are a ton of delicious recipes that depend on ingredients you can’t reasonably be expected to have at home. They’re made of things that come from countries we’ve never heard of, in glassware we thought were props in J.J. Abrams's latest…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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