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Our curated collection of buying guides tailored for gifting, hobbies and beyond.

The Best High-End Tech Deals for Black Friday 2024
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The Best High-End Tech Deals for Black Friday 2024
By Mo Mozuch
The Best Luxury Gifts for Autosports Fans
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The Best Luxury Gifts for Autosports Fans

Luxury goods and autosports go together like cigars and whiskey.

By Karlton Miko Tyack
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The Cool Material 2024 Holiday Gift Guides

Get your holiday shopping done early. Shop our full list of gift guides here: the best of food, drink, tech, travel, style, EDC, fitness, and home goods.

By Cool Material
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The Best Home Gifts for 2024

Home is where the heart is. So gift with your heart and shop for the best home decor items and furniture this holiday season.

By Cool Material
Entertainment
Black Book Additions

Any Black Book worth it's salt is updated on a continual basis and ours is no different. Instead of adding phone numbers or debts, we're adding web addresses and places to shop. Check out The Black Book to see the newest additions to the greatest men's shopping directory on the…

By Ben Dahl
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Gifts
Rapping Paper

As guys, we don’t know the first thing about presenting a gift.  We usually load up on Dollar Store gift bags, jam a few pieces of crumpled up tissue paper in there along with the gift and hand it over like we were some kindergartner offering up a piece of…

By Mike Newman
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Food
Happy Steak and BJ Day

Here’s a little secret:  No guy likes Valentine’s Day.  Some will say they think it’s sweet or they like to show their wife/girlfriend how much they mean, well you know what – bullshit.  With all the stress we put on ourselves to do something romantic, we’re pretty sure the biggest…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Icon Cards

“Icon” is not a term we toss around lightly.  To get labeled as such you’re going to have to have an edge about you, a standout-ness.  That’s why, while there are many kick-ass dudes we admire, there are few “icons.”  The three pictured on these Icon Cards from Oi Polloi…

By Mike Newman
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Fashion
2010 Holiday Gift Guide

It's just about time to start shopping for Christmas / Hanukkah / other holiday presents. More importantly, it's the time when people start shopping for gifts for you. The holidays are supposed to be all about the spirit of giving, but we'd be lying if we didn't say we liked…

By Ben Dahl
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