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An Ode To Kapital, One of the Coolest Brands in Japanese Menswear

On a recent visit to Tokyo, I fell in love with the cult-favorite label.

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The Iceland Most People Don’t See
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Jim Beam’s Small-Batch Booker’s Bourbon Is A Must-Buy in 2026
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Black Book: 10 Products Our Editors Loved in March 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in March 2026.

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Not All Agave Spirits Are Tequila or Mezcal

A deeper dive into Mexico’s lesser-known pours.

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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

The products our editors have been obsessed with in March 2026.

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Not All Agave Spirits Are Tequila or Mezcal

A deeper dive into Mexico’s lesser-known pours.

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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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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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8 Email Newsletters Every Guy Should Know

When people think about newsletters, their first instinct is to usually groan at the idea of some company whose email they regretfully signed up for years ago spamming them about discounts, or giving them unsolicited advice about something they don’t care about. It’s a thing. But not all newsletters are…

By Maxwell Barna
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This 1/6 Scale 1961 Dodge D100 Was Built from Scratch

Konstantin Bogdanov is a Russian living in Ekaterinburg that is absolutely obsessed with scale models. His latest project is a scratch built, 1/6 scale 1961 Dodge D100 truck that, if we're being completely honest, looks better than some of the full-size restorations we've seen. The project took a solid year…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Lodge Made a Mini Cast Iron Skillet for Your Tree

We've put our Lodge cast iron skillet through the wringer, cooking everything from homemade burgers to breakfast frittatas on it on regularly. Unsurprisingly, it's better now than it was when we first took it out of the box, which is why we have such an affinity for using. If you…

By Mike Newman
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Up to 60% off over 23,000 Sale Items at Zappos

And here we thought Nordstrom's Half-Yearly sale with almost 10,000 discounted items was going to be the big post-holiday headline this year. We were wrong. Zappos (aka Amazon) blew them out of the water when they kicked off their holiday sale with up to 60% off over 23,000 items in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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What to Drink this New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve is usually a night defined by shots and straight champagne, quickly followed by decisions that wouldn’t have been made on literally any other night of the year. We think it’s time to change a bit of that. Let’s class up the party with a few cocktail options…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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