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Black Book: 13 Products Our Editors Loved in October 2026
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Black Book: 13 Products Our Editors Loved in October 2026
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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide

The drinks, the music, the vibes, and everything else you need to end summer on a high note.

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The Secret to Perfectly Messy Hair

The perfect balance of polished and undone, without the crunch, grease, or obvious effort.

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Our Go-to Albums for Hosting

7 albums that set the mood so you can worry about the food and whether you have enough ice.

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Drinks
Tallgrass 8-Bit Pale Ale

Unless you were a childhood alcoholic, you probably weren't knocking back a few while avoiding ghosts in Pac-Man.  If you were of age (or broke into your dad's after work stash), you may have found that introducing a bit of a buzz into your quest for pixelated domination added a bit of…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Woodcut Maps

Locating your hometown or other favorite locale on Google Maps, printing it out and pasting it on your wall is not exactly art. In fact, it's flat-out weird, and if we saw it, we'd assume you were plotting something. Displaying an artistically done map of a random spot is totally different.…

By Mike Newman
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Gear
Quirky Strike Match Case

The invention of the modern lighter might have made matches less prevalent, but it didn't eliminate their usefulness. They're still quite useful for lighting candles, fires and cigars, and they're really good at dealing with people conducting business in the bathroom. The Quirky Strike simplifies the process of storing and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Clean Bottle Square

Cleaning reusable water bottles is a pain in the ass. Either you end up digging out a long scrub brush and washing it by hand, or you throw it in the dishwasher and risk melting or the inside not actually getting cleaned. The Clean Bottle Square alleviates all of that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fabian Ciraolo Illustrations

Most art starts a conversation. It evokes the Cubist mentality, or the human condition or blah, blah, pretentious words, blah. Fabian Ciraolo's Illustrations are so impressive that they could be described in many of the same ways, but we like them because they're so f'ing cool. Where else are you…

By Cooper Fleishman
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