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The Anti-Instagram Cocktail Era Is Here

Why bartenders and drinkers are ditching the garnish circus and getting back to minimalistic cocktails.

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Jim Beam’s Small-Batch Booker’s Bourbon Is A Must-Buy in 2026
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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now
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Black Book: 10 Products Our Editors Loved in March 2026

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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Contacts That Can Zoom Are Almost a Reality

Plenty of you reading this will have been blessed with perfect eyesight. For the rest of us, it's glasses, contacts or Lasik surgery. While we're cool with whatever works best for you, advances in the world of contact science by researchers at the University of California San Diego have led…

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‘Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975’ Criterion Collection

Sixty-five years ago, in 1954, the world of pop culture would change forever when a kaiju named as a portmanteau of the Japanese words "gorilla" and "whale" would emerge from the water for the first time. We are, of course, talking about Godzilla and his eponymous first movie. In the…

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Royal Enfield Classic 500 Stealth Black Motorcycle

More than a century ago, Royal Enfield--under The Enfield Cycle Company Limited name--started manufacturing motorcycles. The brand went defunct a few models after the Second World War, but it has since been revived with a whole new line of engines and the bikes built around them. The Royal Enfield Classic…

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Apollo 11 Customs Forms

Short of maybe going to the DMV, there are few things we dread more than airport security and customs. We know we're only bringing back a few bottles of export-only Blanton's whiskey and Cantillon beer that it's perfectly legal to transport as long as it's properly declared, but it still…

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Løvtag Tree House Hotel in Denmark

There are few things in life that will transport you back to your childhood as quickly as spending a night in a tree house. Thankfully for all of us, there are plenty of modern, grown up tree house hotels popping up all over the world--like the recently opened Løvtag Tree…

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