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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

Williamsburg pairs championship courses with centuries of American history, making for one memorable long weekend.

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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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Travel
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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Pininfarina’s Electric Hypercar Will Do 0-62 in Under 2 Seconds

When Tesla announced their next-generation Roadster would hit 60 from a standstill in under 2 seconds, we thought that would be the end of the electric speed wars for a few years. We were wrong. Automobili Pininfarina just announced they're also building an electric car that will hit 62 miles an…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Tipoon Expandable Trailer

The larger the trailer, the greater the nuisance while you drive. That is, of course, unless your trailer is the Tipoon. The Tipoon is more than meets the eye. Press a button on the included remote control and it grows in size, offering more storage and a comfortable hangout area.…

By Mike Newman
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Features
7 Toy Race Cars That Look too Good to Play With

When we were kids, there was no group of toys we played with more than our cars. Diecasts, Hot Wheels, roll-arounds, scale models, whatever. If they had four wheels, we were all about spending hours building them up, pushing them around on the floor, staging demolition derbies, setting up obstacles…

By Maxwell Barna
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Clothing
Batch’s Short Sleeve Foreman Utility Shirt Is Your Warm Weather Go-To

Whether it's because of the attention to detail, exceptional fit, color variety, or the fact that each shirt is handmade one batch at a time, Batch Shirts makes the button-downs you should wear regularly. Now that we're finally transitioning into the warmer months, it's time to talk about short sleeve…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
These adidas Sneakers are Inspired by VHS Cassettes

The streaming era laid waste to movie box art, leaving us instead with thumbnails and on-demand trailers as gateways to films. To us, this is a shame, because if you lived through the glory days of VHS, those cassette jackets pop in your head any time you think of a…

By Mike Newman
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