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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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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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7 Video Games with Crazy Cult Followings

By every measurable standard, video games and the way we play them have advanced with technology over the last few years. They are more detailed, more complex, and more immersive than ever before. But newer isn’t always better. Some games are, quite frankly, timeless. Even with their less robust graphics…

By Maxwell Barna
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Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture

Somewhere between r/mildyinteresting and an episode of 99% Invisible is where you'll find the collective works of Louise Harpman and Scott Specht, the two people most likely to be considered experts on coffee lids. Using the world's largest collection of coffee lids—more precisely, "unique, patented, drink-through, disposable hot-beverage lids"—the two set…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Travel
Svart Is an Energy-Positive Hotel in the Arctic Circle

Snøhetta is a name you're familiar with if you frequent this site, as we've featured a couple of the firm's otherworldly structures. It should come as no surprise, then, that the latest is once again incredibly unique and absolutely stunning. Svart is a new hotel in the Arctic Circle that's…

By Mike Newman
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This Corvette Stingray Sits on a Chevy Blazer Chassis

The Corvette Stingrays of the late 1970s were stunning beasts that were feared at stoplights the country over. They were not feared, however, off pavement... until now. Some mad scientist took a 1967 Stingray and mated it to a 1987 Chevy Blazer chassis to create the ludicrous vehicle you see…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
Jet Capsule Mini-Yacht

Built by a team of Italian entrepreneurs, dreamers, designs, engineers and boat builders looking to develop a completely new boating concept, the Jet Capsule is a futuristic mini-yacht. With enough space for up to 9 people depending on how you customize it, this 24ft luxury vehicle is perfectly suited for…

By Cooper Fleishman
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