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Asheville Has Range
Lifestyle
Asheville Has Range
By Beau Hayhoe
Menswear Staples You Didn’t Know Had Golf History Menswear Staples You Didn’t Know Had Golf History
Lifestyle
Menswear Staples You Didn’t Know Had Golf History

The Harrington jacket is only the beginning.

By Cool Material
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Lifestyle
The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

This coastal Jalisco town has long attracted artists, celebrities, and discerning travelers. Here's how to do it right.

By Cool Material
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
Lifestyle
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

These 5 lighters turn a disposable necessity into a piece of EDC you’ll actually want to carry.

By Beau Hayhoe
Entertainment
The 14 Video Games We Can’t Wait to Play in 2019

Even casual gamers have plenty to be excited for this coming year, with releases from big developers and indie outfits that’ll keep you entertained for hours. Where we could, we’ve included specific dates or seasons, but as anyone who spends any time following gaming can tell you, release dates in…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Transportation
Ford-Approved Vintage Broncos

Gateway Bronco, a company founded in 2016, has received a rare blessing from the automotive gods at Ford. The 115-year-old company has offered an official licensing agreement with the upstart to restore and recreate first-generation Ford Broncos with Ford's approval. That's pretty big news for any lover of the boxy…

By Mike Newman
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Home
F-4 Phantom II Ejection Seat

You can keep your Eames Lounge, Arne Jacobsen's Egg, and every other iconic chair ever created, we'll take this F-4 Phantom II Ejection Seat as our seat of choice every day. This genuine ejection seat from a McDonnell F-4 Phantom II fighter jet is for sale through the Boeing Store,…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Square Off Smart Chess Board

Our smartphones have made chess a game that no longer requires adversaries sit opposite each other at a table. We find this good and bad. It's good because you can always get a game, anytime, anywhere. It's bad because, well, we miss the one-on-one interaction and the tactically pleasing moves…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
The 7 Best Cookbooks of 2018

We’re food nerds. We love everything about food—the accomplished feeling of preparing something different, the joy of watching others enjoy what we’ve made, and the excitement of learning something new. Of course, we couldn’t do any of that without cookbooks. They help open new doors to otherwise unexplored corners of…

By Maxwell Barna
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