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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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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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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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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

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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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How to Improve Your Mobile Photography in 2018

Smartphones have taken the fine art of photography and put it in the hands of anyone willing to hone their skills. Unfortunately for a lot of us, developing those skills could take a long time—time we really just don’t have in between careers, personal relationships, and figuring out which new…

By Maxwell Barna
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What to Watch This Weekend: A Futile and Stupid Gesture

With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend, a series in which we give you our pick for the best new show or…

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Robinhood Now Lets You Trade Cryptocurrency

Robinhood brought investing to the masses, as the company shocked the world with free trades and quickly gained a slew of newbie investors looking to save on transaction fees. Now Robinhood wants to do the same for cryptocurrency with Robinhood Crypto. Rolling out now but not really getting going until…

By Mike Newman
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Elon Musk’s Flamethrower Is Here

In December, Elon Musk's Boring Company, his outfit looking to solve traffic issues via a series of underground transportation tunnels, launched a fairly plain baseball cap. In what was one of the most hilarious throwaway lines ever, he also noted that if the company sold 50,000 of the plain dad…

By Mike Newman
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Japanese Katana Letter Openers

For almost fifty years, Nikken Cutlery has been making been making some of the best scissors, shears and general purpose tools on the market. Now, they're planting their flag deeper in the world of paper products with a line of letter openers inspired by Japanese swords. After successfully crushing a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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