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On Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, 20 Years Later

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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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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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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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One of Aldi’s Cheap Whiskies Was Named Best in the World

When you think of great Scotch whisky, pricey single malts probably dance through your head. What doesn't dance through your head are the bottles that line the shelves of your local Aldi grocery store. But maybe they should. Aldi's Highland Black 8 Year Old Scotch Whisky took home top honors…

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The History of the Honda Monkey, the World’s Favorite Minibike

You are either completely in love with the Honda Z series or you have no idea what it is. For those in the latter category, here’s a quick intro (which will then be followed by a longer story about the origins of the bike). The Honda Z50 was a street-legal…

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The 25 Greatest Directors and Their Highest Rated Movies

There are a few comments we could make about every one of these directors, so we’ll reserve this space for those. Each director on this list is distinctly their own. If someone walked into any of these movies halfway through, they could tell you who made it and might even…

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Hunter RMV Predator 6.6

Light Medium Tactical Vehicles (LMTVs) are juiced-up trucks trusted by the military for getting soldiers and their equipment around some of the more treacherous terrain out there. You most likely don't need one of these vehicles. Still...  If you want a vehicle that can take you just about anywhere, Hunter…

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‘Fallout 76’ Could Be the Game of the Year

The Fallout 76 teaser released shortly before E3 this year generated a lot of buzz, while the larger reveal had quite a few promising innovations in store for the series. As Todd Howard, the Game Director for every Fallout game so far (as well as Skyrim), talked about in Bethesda’s…

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