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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
Transportation
2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo and Turbo S

After what seems like a painfully long wait, Porsche's new electric sports sedan is finally here. The Taycan ("tie-kahn") is the official name of the production car based on the Mission E concept car. Porsche’s first EV gets the Turbo and Turbo S nomenclature despite having no forced induction. The…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Banksy Turbo Zone Truck Could Command $2MM

Maybe you’ll soon see a millionaire driving around in a Volvo box truck not because he/she appreciates its tepid performance and Fridigdaire-like handling qualities but because graffiti artist Banksy got a hold of it. What’s officially titled the “Turbo Zone Truck (Laugh Now but One Day We'll Be in Charge)”…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
This Solid Cuisinart 12-Cup Coffee Pot Is a Steal at More Than Half Off

When it comes to coffee, we're all for cold brew, pour over, siphon, Chemex and French press, but the coffee we really want to drink is whatever deliciously caffeinated sludge is most readily available in mass quantities. That's where this Cuisinart 12-Cup Coffee Pot comes in. It's not the sexiest,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Haugen Zohar Architects Uredd Memorial Plaza

Haugen Zohar Architects--aka HZA--is an Oslo, Norway based collective founded over a decade ago that's spent that time establishing itself as a national and international shop by creating projects that bridge the overlap between architecture, function and art. There is perhaps no better indication of what HZA is capable of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Ensō Essential Titanium Cutlery Is the Last Set You’ll Ever Need to Buy

If you're anything like us, you have more sets of cutlery--aka forks, knives and spoons--than you know what to do with. We don't want to throw out the perfectly good collection we've managed to accumulate over the years, but that doesn't mean we're not thinking about it when we see…

By Cooper Fleishman
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