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Italy From Home

How to stock your pantry, fridge, and bar cart like an Italian.

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The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
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The Rise of Prediction Culture
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Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

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Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

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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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Travel
Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

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What We're Buying
Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

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Lifestyle
The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now

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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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Watches
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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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Sonos x Ikea Symfonisk Bookshelf Speaker

Just when you thought Ikea’s offerings largely amounted to assembly-required furniture designed to challenge you even when you’re sober, they’ve revealed a new product born from their partnership with audio product manufacturer Sonos in the form of the Symfonisk bookshelf speaker. Upon first glance, though it’s certainly handsome in its…

By Amos Kwon
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Cameras
Sony RXO II

Strap on your helmets and do whatever death-defying adventure you want to capture on film with the diminutive but powerful RX0 II pocket video camera. Though its portability is its strongest selling point, the RX0 II packs a punch with 4K/30p shooting and 15-MP stills and uses a 1.0-type stacked…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
A ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’ Station Wagon Is Going to Auction

When it comes to Barret-Jackson, they more than live up to their "world's greatest collector car auctions" trademark. This year's Palm Beach auction (April 11 - 13) is full of classic cars we want to park in the garage. There's a 1968 Ford Mustang Eleanor Tribute Edition, a 1953 Buick…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
US Postal Service Unveils 50th Anniversary Apollo 11 Stamps

We're not going to pretend that we consider ourselves philatelists, but the US Postal Service has been releasing some pretty cool stamps that even we'll collect. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the USPS created two new stamps based on the event. One features…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Dogfish Head SuperEIGHT Beer Develops Kodak Film

Though we wish for a single malt whisky that can also fuel a supercar and Cuban cigar smoke that conditions our hair, we'll settle for a beer that develops film. That's right. The folks at Dogfish Head Brewery have partnered with Kodak and created a Super Gose beer crafted with…

By Amos Kwon
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