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Ferrari’s Most Underrated Racing Event Is Happening in Austin This Weekend
By Christian Poppert
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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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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Anytime something gets so big that soccer moms are into it, we can't help but turn into quasi-hipster elitists. When every passenger on our flight was reading a copy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a few years back, our initial instinct was to shun it as mass crap. Only it…

By Mike Newman
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Mixtape: SXSW

The Music portion of SXSW (we’re not even going to pretend like you don’t know what that acronym means) is as close to Mecca as you can get if you’re a lover of all things indie and undiscovered. For 25 years running it’s been the leading festival event in an…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Hardware Chess Set

If you've ever been hesitant to pick up the game of chess because it's stereotypically nerdy, first off, go play a few rounds with the guys in Washington Square Park and get back to us, and second, pick up this Nuts and Bolts set. The thinking man's game gets a working…

By Mike Newman
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Banksy: You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat

Ten years ago, graffiti wasn't the artistic behemoth it is now. Reserved for rail cars and dilapidated buildings in need of a good tagging, it wasn't considered gallery worthy. Banksy helped change all of that and now he's getting his due for it. Banksy: You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat covers…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Better Bacon Book

If you were to write a list of all the potentially manly things a person could do, reading a cookbook would probably not be on it. Outside of gramma's secret cheesecake recipe (which you've never been able to get quite right), the solution to any cooking queries is normally just…

By Cooper Fleishman
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