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The Back to School Guide for Guys Who Aren’t Going Back to School
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The Back to School Guide for Guys Who Aren’t Going Back to School
By Lanny Fuller
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

By Cool Material
Asheville Has Range Asheville Has Range
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Asheville Has Range

Mountains and murals. Dive bars and the Biltmore. Airstreams and American single malt. Five days barely scratches the surface in one of America's most charming towns.

By Beau Hayhoe
Menswear Staples You Didn’t Know Had Golf History Menswear Staples You Didn’t Know Had Golf History
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Menswear Staples You Didn’t Know Had Golf History

The Harrington jacket is only the beginning.

By Cool Material
Features
What Beer Was Like Before Hops

German beer purists would have you believe beer was divinely begotten from malt, water, hops, and nothing else. If it wasn’t divine, then it was at least bureaucratic, thanks to the Reinheitsgebot, a law that regulates beer production and has for more than 500 years. It’s a law so old…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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7 Nose Hair Trimmers to Stop You From Looking Like an Old Man

Let's face it, none of us are getting any younger, despite what we like to tell ourselves. We all have a handful of errant hairs that need taking care of, and that's particularly true when it comes to the ones breaching the nostrils and connecting to your mustache area. No…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The IKEA Rumtid Collection Is Inspired by Space Travel

IKEA's Democratic Design Days always produces a bunch of insane collaborations and products we want to own—like Virgil Abloh's receipt rug—but few collections impressed us as much as the upcoming Rumtid collection that's inspired by space. Based on the concepts of time, small space, and water and air, the Rumtid…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
12 Life Lessons from ‘Seinfeld’

For a show that was mostly about stifling character growth and empathy, Seinfeld sure taught us a lot about being a better person. Almost every episode has some kind of lesson on how to improve your life, but it’s more on the audience to decipher the moral. It’s also probably…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Entertainment
The Best Opening Lines in Movie History

We love when films take us and pull us in the minute the cameras start rolling, and there’s no better way to do that with some mind bendingly good opening lines. It’s the filmmakers first opportunity to establish everything about the movie. It will define the character, world, and situation,…

By Maxwell Barna
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