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The Gentlemen’s Trip: A Field Guide
By Lanny Fuller
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The Soundtrack of a Gentlemen’s Trip

Because music shapes a trip.

By Lanny Fuller
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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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Oscars Postmortem

What won, what should’ve won, and what really should’ve won.

By Andy Crump
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A Review of Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ the Movie Everyone Will Be Talking About This Summer

Spike Lee is not one to toss out jabs; he throws haymakers. Do The Right Thing landed in theaters with a lit fuse attached; Malcom X was the movie its subject deserved; and Four Little Girls remains one of the most impactful yet least talked about documentaries we've ever seen. Yet, like Lee's beloved…

By Mike Newman
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The 10 Best Music Venues in the USA

Whether you realize it or not, something happens when we exchange the intangibility of studio recorded music played across Spotify stations for a live concert. A live concert is more of an experience. It’s a brief moment in time that’ll never be experienced or expressed in the exact same way,…

By Maxwell Barna
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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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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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