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Cool, January 2026

Cool, January 2026

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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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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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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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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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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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A curated selection of our favorite gear

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Feeling the Burn

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

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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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Kawasaki W650 2LOUD Custom

There's nothing particularly special about the standard Kawasaki W650 motorcycle made in the late '90s and early 2000s. It's a conventional urban motorcycle that's comfortable and well made. If anything, it does a good job of copying the Triumph Bonneville. But in the hands of 2LOUD fabricators, it can become…

By Amos Kwon
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Beijing Daxing Airport

Whether it's on a connecting flight, stranded on a delay or just during the course of normal travel, we've all spent time way too much time in airports. Airports suck, end of story. This is particularly true if you've ever spent any time flying into or out of the Beijing…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
‘The Gentlemen’ Official Trailer

Every since we first saw the poster with a rocks glass filled with whiskey and a gun-shaped ice cube, we knew The Gentlemen was going to be a movie we'd shell out to see in theaters. For starters, the ensemble cast includes: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Pabst Blue Ribbon’s Art Can Contest

Whether you're talking about Pabst Blue Ribbon's new beers for 2019, their PBR Whiskey, or their White Claw-crushing PBR Stronger Seltzer, everyone's favorite blue ribbon beverage label has been having a big year. Despite those all being great things that we love, in our minds, the best thing they do…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Black versus Color Wedding

When it comes to wedding planning, the options are generally limited to "will there be a bar during dinner?", "is the ceremony going to be held in a church," and "how much white do we want the entire ceremony to have?" Ryan and Von--from Boom Studios and Ivy Creative, respectively--decided…

By Cooper Fleishman
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