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London Doesn’t Have to Be Lavish to Travel Well

Your smart, stylish, and affordable guide to visiting the UK capital.

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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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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

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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

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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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Feeling the Burn

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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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296-Horsepower Volkswagen Golf GTI Club Sport

Both the VW Golf GTI and the Golf R will be the only remaining hatchbacks from the brand in 2021, but that doesn't stop VW from making a special Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport that's even sharper and more adroit in the twisties than the other brothers. Engineers have tweaked just…

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‘Ready Player Two’ Is the Follow-up Book You’ve Been Waiting For

Ernest Cline's Ready Player One was a nostalgia-fueled, video game forward, literary powerhouse that harkened back to everything we grew up loving. In addition to being one of the 20 best books from the last decade, it was also one of the movies we're most excited about a few years…

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The New Apple iPhone 12 Models Have Finally Been Revealed

As part of the recent Apple keynote, the brand finally revealed the specs on all four of the new iPhone 12 models. As expected, it's all a little confusing. All of the phones are 5G capable, powered by the A14 Bionic chip and feature and all-new design with ceramic shield.…

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Make Your Home Smell Great with Alfred Lane Incense Cones

Whether it's roll-on or solid cologne, candles or hand sanitizer, Alfred Lane has always impressed us with their best-smelling and best-selling scents. It doesn't matter if you're looking for sweet and smoky or citrusy and musky, Alfred Lane has a handful of scents that make anything smell better. Now you…

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D.S. & Durga Teamed up with Johnnie Walker for a Blue Label Candle

While Johnnie Walker is most certainly not the first bottle of whisk(e)y we reach for any day, Blue Label has a certain level of provenance and name recognition that makes keeping a bottle on hand almost a necessity. Similarly, if you're so inclined to be in possession of the best,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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