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The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

The swim shorts, half-zip, and retro runners that became the 20% of my summer wardrobe doing 80% of the work.

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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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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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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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Summer’s Best Watches Under $1,500

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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How This Cryptic Vinegar Estate in Germany Sparked My Cocktail Shrub Era

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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

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The American Watchmaker Rebuilding a Lost Craft

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A Pilgrimage to Italy’s Iconic Superbikes and Supercars in Emilia-Romagna

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The Italian Art of Dressing Well in the Heat

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Volvo is Bringing Back the Station Wagon with the New V60

When we think suburbia, we think sleek modern homes lined like ducks in a row, neatly trimmed hedges, trash receptacles dutifully lining curbs, smiling neighbors, and short stubby driveways. In those driveways, we usually picture neatly parked Volvos, waiting to take the kids to school and soccer practice, or cart…

By Maxwell Barna
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Transportation
This Company Takes Old Porsche 911s and Turns Them Into Electric Cars

Those who love the iconic body of an old Porsche 911 but feel the pull to step into the future are in luck. Voitures Extravert is a Dutch company that takes old Porches and turns them into electric vehicles. Wild, right? They strip the ride and drop in a battery…

By Mike Newman
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Living on Water: Contemporary Houses Framed by Water

Leave it to the talented people at Phaidon to turn our wanderlust for the waves and our desire to be near the water into an experience you can have without ever leaving your living room. Living on Water, the latest in a long line of great coffee table books from Phaidon,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
1980 Land Rover Series III 4×4 Station Wagon

If you're looking to upgrade your fleet of personal vehicles with something more unique than anything off the lot, look no further than this 1980 Land Rover Series III 4x4 Station Wagon that Bonhams is auctioning off next month. If you're unfamiliar with the Series III, it was inspired by…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Sierra Nevada Has Teamed With the World’s Oldest Brewery for a New Beer

For all the beer advances this country has made over the last handful of years, there are select styles that seem to have fallen by the wayside in the pursuit of juicy IPAs and candy-flavored stouts. None is more upsetting to us than the Hefeweissbier. While a few American breweries…

By Mike Newman
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