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The Charm of Canandaigua, New York

The perfect friend trip for 2026.

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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)
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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

Give drink lovers gifts like these. And they'll make you good drinks in return. Win, win.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

Pinkies out.

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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

Give drink lovers gifts like these. And they'll make you good drinks in return. Win, win.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery

Check out our CM product review of the hottest product in wellness right now: the Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot. Spoiler alert -- it’s a gamechanger!

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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It

They've explored 10,000 miles together. Here are their essentials.

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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

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The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle

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Hypershell X Review: The Future of Hiking Has Legs

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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NERF Limited Star Wars The Mandalorian Amban Phase-Pulse Blaster

Everyone's crazy about The Mandalorian, especially Baby Yoda (aka, The Child), but another star of the show is Din Djarin's rifle. Now, Hasbro has created its own version of the Amban Phase-Pulse Blaster that might just be the longest NERF gun ever made. It's over four feet long and pretty…

By Amos Kwon
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‘Nobody’ Official Trailer

In the upcoming film Nobody, Bob Odenkirk is "nobody" Hutch Mansell, a seemingly mild-mannered family man down on his luck. Bunch of bad guys sneak into his house, cause some havoc and leave. He doesn't do anything about it. His family, friends and coworkers are all disappointed in him. As…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
Hakusan Megane ‘John Lennon’ Mayfair Glasses

Although the most famous pair of John Lennon glasses were his green-tinted round Oliver Goldsmiths that sold for $180k+ last year, his Hakusan Mayfairs are also iconic in their own right. The company stopped making them after Lennon was assassinated in 1980. 40 years later, the Japanese company has reissued…

By Amos Kwon
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‘Retro Watches: The Modern Collectors’ Guide’

We're all for the modern innovations and design ideas that make current watches bulletproof, reliable timepieces capable of doing everything from looking good to tracking you with GPS. There's something to be said for the weird, quirky watches from the '60s, '70s and '80s that were more concerned with breaking…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The 1,000-Mile Aptera Paradigm Plus

If this slippery EV looks familiar, you're not wrong. Aptera Motors was founded in 2006 and then closed its doors in 2011 after failing to secure funding for its EV in a precarious market. The company has now risen from the ashes to offer up the Aptera Paradigm Plus, teardrop-shaped…

By Amos Kwon
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