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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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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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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 Best Opening Lines in Movie History

We love when films take us and pull us in the minute the cameras start rolling, and there’s no better way to do that with some mind bendingly good opening lines. It’s the filmmakers first opportunity to establish everything about the movie. It will define the character, world, and situation,…

By Maxwell Barna
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Food
Lagunitas Made a Drink With Hops and Cannabis

You don't have to look hard to see that the gang at Lagunitas Brewing Company celebrates 420. We mean, the original name for Censored Rich Copper Ale, before it was censored, was The Kronik. So maybe the new beverage they're rolling out isn't that much of a surprise. Lagunitas Hi-Fi…

By Mike Newman
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This ProCharged 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle Has over 1,000 Horsepower

For more than a decade, Classic Car Studio in St. Louis has been creating one-off custom classics that are as performance focused as they are drop dead gorgeous. This ProCharged 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle is the perfect example of everything the shop excels at, and if we're being completely honest, when…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Venmo Debit Card

"I'll Venmo you." The phrase is now ubiquitous, as the money transferring service has helped friends settle drink tabs and office mates split lunch bills with ease. Now Venmo is taking its powers to the real world with the Venmo Debit Card. In collaboration with Mastercard, the Venmo Debit Card…

By Mike Newman
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These Watches are Made from Destructed Illegal Guns

Humanium Metal is not the elusive material the protagonists in the coming Avatar movie are trying to protect. It's far more important, actually. Humanium Metal is made from illegal firearms that have been melted down. For TRIWA's latest run of watches, the brand teamed with IM Swedish Development Partner to obtain…

By Mike Newman
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