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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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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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The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia

Every time a fantasy world is well-realized, people clamor to know more about it. Think about the obsessive devotion fans have to understanding the history of Middle-Earth, Westeros, and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. They spend years dissecting every little thing that promises even a hint of information about…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Tops Knives Operator 7 Knife

Tops Knives makes investment-worthy blades, the kind you save up for and cherish until you pass it down. The latest is for the guy who wants to go all Rambo on his daily tasks. The Operator 7 steals its aesthetics from fighting knives, only it's designed as a workhorse tool,…

By Mike Newman
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What to Watch This Weekend: Sharp Objects

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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Black Hole Spin Coin From J. L. Lawson & Co.

We love the attention J. L. Lawson & Company pays to the doohickey. Normally that word carries with it an air of cheapness, as if the items it's used to describe are chintzy and disposable. The latest elevated doohickey to roll out of their shop is the Event Horizon Spin…

By Mike Newman
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Ducati Is Celebrating the Monster 25th Anniversary with a Limited Bike

The Ducati Monster is one of the most iconic motorcycles ever created. It's almost hard to believe, but this year it's celebrating its 25th birthday. For the 25th anniversary of the Monster, Ducati is celebrating in style with the limited Monster 1200 25° Anniversario bike. Each Monster 1200 25° Anniversario…

By Cooper Fleishman
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