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Head to Healdsburg, Wine Weirdos

A long weekend in Sonoma's most effortlessly charming town, where good wine is just one reason to visit.

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

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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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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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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

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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

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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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8 Frank Lloyd Wright Homes We’d Empty Our Bank Accounts to Live In

Frank Lloyd Wright is considered the one of the greatest American architects of all time. In his lifetime, he created a very distinctive style of architecture he called Prairie School, and was the lead designer of over 1,100 beautiful buildings. He utilized many different styles of design in his homes,…

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NutSac’s New Muy Grande Will Fit a 17″ Laptop

NutSac has always fully embraced the man bag with their collection of high-quality and conveniently-sized everyday carry bags. Their new Muy Grande, their biggest bag to date, takes everything you love about the brand and adds an internal laptop compartment that fits most 17" laptops. Like every other NutSac, Muy…

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Dieter Rams Collection Auction

From calculators to alarm clocks, Dieter Rams put his unmistakable stamp on a wide range of useful products, many of which we still trust to this day. Known for functional simplicity, a Dieter Rams designed product always puts the user experience first. Now you can be one of those users…

By Mike Newman
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The 10 Best Sunscreens for Your Next Day at the Beach

You've got your new swimsuit. You've got your new beach bag. You even have a good book and a pair of sunglasses. The only thing missing for a great trip to the beach—outside of a cold beer—is proper sunscreen. We're all for the classics from Coppertone and Hawaiian Tropic in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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You Can Own a Castle with Its Own Pub and Treehouse

Most of us are limited to a few days in a castle hotel or Airbnb castle to satisfy our desire to serve as king. Want to own your own castle instead of renting one? That dream can be yours for the small sum of just over $5.1 million. The original Ackergill…

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