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Dry January Isn’t New. The Drinks Are, Though.

A practical guide to the modern sober-curious landscape.

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Stop Treating Coffee Like a Chore
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Sheffield Revives a Classic: Crafting Quality, Technology, and Affordability Into Every Timepiece
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Bowl Season Gear by Nike

If you’re gearing up for the most wonderful, chaotic stretch of the college football calendar, start here.

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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty

The brand that invented unbreakable style just made its two most iconic watches even sharper.

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6 Breakfast Cocktails Every Gentleman Should Know How to Make
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Looks Like a Teddy, Wears Like a Grizzly
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Bowl Season Gear by Nike

If you’re gearing up for the most wonderful, chaotic stretch of the college football calendar, start here.

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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty

The brand that invented unbreakable style just made its two most iconic watches even sharper.

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6 Breakfast Cocktails Every Gentleman Should Know How to Make

On the off chance you need a little help tomorrow morning.

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Looks Like a Teddy, Wears Like a Grizzly

Nike ACG "Canwell Glacier" Jacket, reviewed.

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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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Pale Blue Rechargeable Smart Batteries Can Save You Thousands of Dollars

Disposable batteries are toxic, expensive and take up too much space in landfills. But they're also necessary because we still need to power our remotes, cameras, game controllers, gadgets and drones. That's where Pale Blue comes in. Their new Lithium Polymer USB Smart Rechargeable Batteries are more efficient, faster charging,…

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Food
How to Make Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Hamburger

Whether you're talking real or fictional, there are few characters throughout history as iconic as Ernest "Papa" Hemingway. During his time off and on in Cuba from 1939 to 1960, Hemingway would write two of his most celebrated novels For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the…

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Transportation
2020 Land Rover Defender

After a long wait, the off-road legend returns in modern form. The 2020 Land Rover Defender promises even more rugged prowess but with more modern appointments and a fresh design. In 2-door 90 and 4-door 110 variants, the Defender carries over iconic cues like the round headlights in a rectangular…

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The Polaroid Lab Turns Your Smartphone Pictures into Polaroids

We love the fact that modern smartphones give us the ability and convenience of being able to take great photos wherever we are and share them with the world. And yet, we still long for the nostalgia and tangibility of the old school Polaroid. That's where the Polaroid Lab comes…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Braun Is Getting Back into the Audio Game with a New Line of Speakers

Six decades ago around 1959, Braun released the Dieter Rams-designed LE1 speaker, the first electrostatic mode loudspeaker available on the German hi-fi market. After being absent from the audio business for almost thirty years since then, Braun is getting back into the speaker game with an all new line of…

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