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Ferrari’s Most Underrated Racing Event Is Happening in Austin This Weekend
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Laphroaig’s New Whisky Comes With No Tasting Notes And a Chance to Hang with Willem Dafoe

The brand's second Dafoe collaboration is a 14-year single malt with no official tasting notes. Write the best one, and you could end up on set with the legend himself.

By Andy Vasoyan
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The Most Unhinged Frankenstein Movies You’ve Never Seen

A new indie horror standout (and a not-so-great studio effort) sent us down the rabbit hole of Frankenstein films that get truly, gloriously strange.

By Andy Crump
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The Gentlemen’s Trip: A Field Guide

Everything you need to turn a guys trip into something better.

By Lanny Fuller
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An Artist Made a Model of Midtown Manhattan Out of Computer Parts

Not every artist works with paint and canvas. Zayd Menk, an artist based in Zimbabwe, uses computer parts, hot glue, and basically anything he can find in his junk drawer. The results are stunning. Just check out this build of Midtown Manhattan he completed after months of work. Composed of…

By Mike Newman
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The 10 Best Films of the Last Decade

Almost all of the films up for an Academy Award this year are certified fresh on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, but that doesn't necessarily mean every one of those films is one we consider to be one of the best films. We poured over the top 100 Tomatometer scores with…

By Cooper Fleishman
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IKEA Hasselblad Collection

Normally we'd advise against buying artwork from a store like IKEA, urging you instead to considers smaller shops and lesser-known artists so your home is more unique. Well, we're putting a big caveat in that declaration, as IKEA has teamed up with Hasselblad, the legendary camera maker, for a series…

By Mike Newman
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10 Books That Will Make You Seem Smarter Than You Really Are

Books, and the ability to print them in mass, changed the course of human history. No longer was learning confined to an educated elite. Fast forward 560 years and we have more options than ever for learning, including podcasts, YouTube videos, and infographics. Yet, books still form the foundation, and a…

By Drew Haas
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7 Video Games with Crazy Cult Followings

By every measurable standard, video games and the way we play them have advanced with technology over the last few years. They are more detailed, more complex, and more immersive than ever before. But newer isn’t always better. Some games are, quite frankly, timeless. Even with their less robust graphics…

By Maxwell Barna
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