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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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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

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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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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This Artist Spent Two Years Photographing Everything She Owns

Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins has always produced works that deal with her obsession of aesthetic, beauty, human oddness and, in our opinion, that thin line between personal intimacy and vulnerability. Her latest project, Katalog, is perhaps the best example of this voyeuristic style and puts her front and center through…

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1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six Plexiglas “Ghost Car”

Glorious concept cars as well as production cars make it to the spotlight at manufacturer displays at auto shows every year, but there has never been anything quite like the Pontiac Deluxe Six Plexiglas "Ghost Car" at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. Front and center at The Highways…

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At Home: This Fried Garlic Chili Oil Is Our New Favorite Condiment

Since many of us are still home, we decided to do some digging to find useful products to help stay productive, occupied, entertained and fit while you’re At Home. When it comes to spicing up your noodles, udon, pad thais, and everything other Asian dish, few things deliver like the…

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Bivacco Brédy Shelter

Looking like a giant Polaroid camera from some angles, the Bivacco Brédy in the Aosta Valley in Italy provides shelter in the most beautiful of ways. Most importantly, it was created to honor the memory of Claudio Brédy, a former politician and lover of the mountains who tragically lost his…

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Eagle Lightweight GT Jaguar E-Type

There will never be another Jaguar E-Type, and the design of the low slung sports coupe/roadster will forever remain in the pantheon of iconic automotive design. That is, unless it's handmade homage like the Eagle Lightweight GT. The company took the Series 1 E-Type and crafted each piece of the…

By Amos Kwon
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