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

And how horror went from critically hated to the latest Cannes "it" genre.

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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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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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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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Lay-Flat Notebooks Perfect for Your Desk

Spend any amount of time on Cool Material and you'll know we're huge fans of pocket notebooks, journals, cahiers, memo pads, composition books and any  collections of blank pages we can use to commit thoughts, ideas, and projects to paper. We love all of them. But there will always be…

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Legacy Overland ‘Project Sequoia’ Toyota Land Cruiser

We're not even going to pretend that, based on looks alone, we don't want to own this 1985 Toyota Land Cruiser dubbed Project Sequoia from Legacy Overland. In the world of vintage SUVs, cars and trucks, there's perhaps no vehicle we'd rather be driving than an old school Land Cruiser.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ Official Trailer

As soon as the Dun Dun Dun from the Mission Impossible soundtrack starts playing, you're immediately hooked... regardless of the fact that it's the sixth installment of agent Ethan Hunt doing some completely ridiculous shit that is in no way possible for any human being. And really, that's kind of…

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The ‘Beastie Boys Book’ Is Finally Happening

There's a lot of music that can get turned on in the office that will make you wish you had a headphones only policy. Throwing on anything from Beastie Boys will always be ok in our offices. So ever since they hinted there was an upcoming book about their rise…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Complete Guide to Cutting Your Own Hair

We’ve finally closed the book on what seemed like a never-ending winter. Good. Riddance. With warm weather consistently filling the 10-day, it’s officially the season of activity, both professionally and socially, meaning it’s time to pay extra attention to how you’re presenting yourself. This year, allow us to suggest another…

By Mike Newman
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