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Our Favorite Finds From Bespoke Post’s Fourth of July Sale

Up to 50% off. These are the pieces we'd grab before they're gone.

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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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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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What to Watch This Weekend: Demetri Martin: The Overthinker

With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend, a series in which we give you our pick for the best new show or…

By Mike Newman
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This GMC Short Bus Was Turned Into a Camper

From the outside, this looks like your average GMC short bus. Inside, however, you'll find the work of a German filmmaker and tattoo artist, who completely transformed the bus. It's filled with interesting features we're definitely going to reference if we ever attempt a build like this of our own.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

Of all Steve Jobs's talents, it was his eye for design which intrigues us the most. If you agree, maybe skip the Walter Isaacson tome and pick up a copy of Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs. Ken Kocienda, a software engineer who worked…

By Mike Newman
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This House Has a Waterfall in It

There's opulent, and then there's "I have a damn waterfall in my house" opulent. Such lavishness exists courtesy of Architects49 and the outfit's aptly named Waterfall House. The highlight, obviously, is the waterfall located in the center of the house, which isn't quite Niagara Falls, but is still pretty sweet.…

By Mike Newman
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The McDonald’s Gold Card Gets You Free Mickey D’s For Life

If you're telling us that we could walk into a McDonald's at any time, grab some fries and a Big Mac, and just walk out without paying, we'd assume we were cast as the new Hamburglar. Not a bad gig, we guess, but this is actually far sweeter. McDonald's is…

By Mike Newman
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