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Lifestyle
The Most Refreshing Hop Waters, Ranked

The Most Refreshing Hop Waters, Ranked

Crack. Sip. Ahhhhhh.

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Bowl Season Gear by Nike
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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty
Our Picks

Featured Stories

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Sports
The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

New year essentials.

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Holiday
The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides

From style and home goods to EDC and food and drink, we rounded up the coolest gifts of the year.

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

New year essentials.

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Holiday
The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides

From style and home goods to EDC and food and drink, we rounded up the coolest gifts of the year.

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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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Outdoors
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 best deals and offers on the web

Editors' Picks

A curated selection of our favorite gear

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Feeling the Burn

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Sports
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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle
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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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Watches
Watches

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

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50
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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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Watches
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150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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Watches
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I Went Down a Nixon Watch Rabbit Hole. Here Are the 4 Most Surprising Details I Found

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Now Is the Time to Experiment with an Instant Pot Because This One Is on Sale for over 30% Off

Let's take a moment to talk about the programmable, multi-use, multi-function counter top eating device that is the Instant Pot. If you have even one friend that's on the pressure cooker / rice cooker / slow cooker / steamer / yogurt maker train, you've no doubt heard about the magnificent…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Misc
Banksy’s Former Manager Is Releasing a Book Filled with Photos of the Artist in Action

Whether it's opening stores to spite large brands, shredding his own works or defacing currency, everything Banksy does is talked about, newsworthy and on display. The one thing that remains a closely guarded secret is the artist's identity, but that could change with his former manager / driver / dealer…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House Illuminated With Lasers

If you have to ask who the hell Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is, you know bubkus about architecture and design. The man's stamp is on some of the best modern designs the world has ever seen. His minimalist and modern Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois was just decorated with…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Thrive Motorcycle 1951 BMW R51 Restomod

Vintage "Beamer" motorcycles that are decades old still run today, and they still thrill on urban streets and open country roads, but there aren't many legendary R51s left (only 18,000 were made), and Thrive Motorcycle based in Indonesia has just restomodded one to bring it to the modern age. Using…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Rubber Band Minigun

There are few things that check all of the childhood nostalgia boxes quite like the classic rubber band gun. In addition to being a relatively painless method of settling disputes and having some fun, rubber band guns are also great weapons of office warfare. If you want to absolutely decimate…

By Cooper Fleishman
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