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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

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The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
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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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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

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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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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Own Han Solo’s Jacket from ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

We've seen quite a few cool pieces of Star Wars memorabilia and collaborative tie-ins over the years. Short of a functional light saber, fully operational Millennium Falcon or actual light speed, this jacket may be the coolest thing to come out of the Star Wars universe that you can actually…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The 10 Best Music Venues in the USA

Whether you realize it or not, something happens when we exchange the intangibility of studio recorded music played across Spotify stations for a live concert. A live concert is more of an experience. It’s a brief moment in time that’ll never be experienced or expressed in the exact same way,…

By Maxwell Barna
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Cameras
The Ultimate Lens Hood Lets You Take Reflection-Free Photos Through Glass

You can't always get right up next to your subject when you're taking pictures. Maybe you're at a zoo and that king cobra is, rightfully, in a glass cage, or maybe you're on the road and the scenery out the windshield is breathtaking. Whatever the case, glass is not a…

By Mike Newman
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Hacking Whiskey

We've sipped our fair share of whiskey, so perhaps it's time to try something new. Not a new spirit, mind you, but rather new ways of enjoying our favorite booze. Hacking Whiskey: Smoking, Blending, Fat Washing, and Other Whiskey Experiments from author Aaron Goldfarb takes whiskey enthusiasts on a journey to…

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This Discounted Speaker Is Great for the Beach or the Shower

Whether you're looking for tunes at the beach, ballads in the shower or jams you can take with you, a portable Bluetooth speaker will take care of all your needs. There are plenty of great Bluetooth speakers on market. One of our favorites, the OontZ Angle 3 from Cambridge Soundworks, is…

By Cooper Fleishman
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