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The Best Tank Watches For Men Are Wearable History for Your Wrist

The retro style and its “hip to be square” ethos add distinguished flair to your timepiece rotation.

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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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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

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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Land Rover Experience Tour Coffee Table Book

Every year, Land Rover uses its Global Experience Centers to host a slew of Experience Tours designed to give you an incredible look at the world around you through the driver's seat of one of their incredible vehicles. Unfortunately, we can't all make it to South Africa, China or the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The 8 Most Beautiful Coffee Makers We’ve Ever Seen

Did you know that 83% of American adults drink coffee or espresso? Whether that coffee is coming from a local shop or the machine in your kitchen, a good cup of coffee comes most frequently from a great machine.  You need a great coffee maker in your kitchen—especially if you…

By Evan Malachosky
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Entertainment
The Best Documentaries You’ve Never Heard Of

What would our lives be were it not for documentary film? They force us to sit down, watch, and listen. They put us in times, places, and in the minds and hearts of people we’d ordinarily only hear about filtered through six degrees of news cycles, relatives, and clickbait. Put…

By Maxwell Barna
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Food
Snow Peak’s Field Barista Kit Guarantees a Perfect Cup of Coffee When You Camp

There's something special about that first cup of coffee in the morning when you're camping. The air is crisp, the birds are chirping, and you're slowly waking after spending the night in a minimally padded sleeping bag. That isn't to say it's a good cup, however. It's time to do away…

By Mike Newman
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The Origin Japanese Kiridashi Knife Is Made from an Old File

We've become a tad obsessed with kiridashi blades as of late, the Japanese style of knife that's good for everything from cutting boxes to removing splinters. During our hunt for ones to consider for our everyday carry, we came across this gem from Origin. Made by hand, the Origin Japanese Kiridashi…

By Mike Newman
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