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The Coolest Father’s Day Gifts of 2026
Lifestyle
The Coolest Father’s Day Gifts of 2026
By Cool Material
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Lifestyle
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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Lifestyle
The Ancient Art of Cooking Dinner Beneath Your Feet

Across nearly every continent, cultures have discovered the same thing. The earth makes a pretty incredible oven.

By Lola Méndez
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Lifestyle
The Anti-Instagram Cocktail Era Is Here

Why bartenders and drinkers are ditching the garnish circus and getting back to minimalistic cocktails.

By Christopher Osburn
Entertainment
The Twist: A Museum That Doubles as a Bridge in Norway

Every time we think Bjarke Ingels and the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) couldn't possibly come up with anything else that would impress us as much as their previous projects, they do. The Twist at the Kistefos sculpture park in Norway is the perfect example of BIG's ability to bring the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Tom Sachs ‘Timeline’ Is a Retrospective of Some of the Artist’s Most Famous Works

Tom Sachs is one of those contemporary artists that many would consider polarizing. On one hand, carving your name into a Stanley tape measure with a new sticker on it and then selling it for $250 is completely absurd. On the other hand, designing the Nike x Tom Sachs Exploding…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
1972 De Tomaso Pantera

The Italian "Panther" with the American Ford Engine is now considered a rarity. Birthed to compete with the Lamborghini Miura, the Pantera was a mid-engined exotic with a 330-hp V8 and had some of the best lines of its era. De Tomaso went on to build 7,000 of them, and…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Blacked Out 1981 DeLorean DMC-12

Thanks to the Back to the Future movies (and the infamy of John DeLorean, himself), the DeLorean DMC-12 is one of the most iconic cars of all time. Despite the fact that it's slower than a Mitsubishi Mirage economy hatchback and has the reliability of a vintage British automobile, it's…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
ChopBox Smart Cutting Board

It might not seem like it at first because they're nowhere near as sexy as a good chef's knife, but cutting boards are just as important as the rest of your kitchen tools even though we don't seem to talk about them much. The new ChopBox Smart Cutting Board is…

By Cooper Fleishman
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