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The Iconic REEF Fanning Sandal Just Hit Legal Drinking Age

Four new models join the family of clever, beach-bum approved sandals featuring a bottle opener in the sole

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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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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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What’s Happening Outside the Frames of Iconic Album Covers?

That Instagram post of the woman doing some insane yoga pose in an angelic field filled with daisies? Yeah, it was probably cropped so you couldn't see the chaos going on around her, the child waiting for her mom to finish taking the picture and the trashcan overflowing with McDonald's.…

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How to Stay Up-to-Date With Cool Material on Facebook

The way we consume news, information, and entertainment is changing. This is far from a shocker to anyone who grew up reading the paper every Sunday morning. Over the past few years, social media has stepped in as one of the main sources for all those things, delivering info from…

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The Best Audiobooks for People Who Hate Reading

Audiobooks are podcasts with plots. They were podcasts before there were podcasts (as was talk radio). In fact, most of the time, they’re better than podcasts. You can’t start a audiobook on a whim, so right there you cut out most of the chaff. If you’ve been wanting to get…

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Word. Notebooks Rad Collection

It’s time to dip back into the era of brick-sized mobile phones, calculator watches, and Alf. In other words, it’s time to get Rad. Our latest series of Word. Notebooks, the pocket notebook brand we launched in 2012, is inspired by the ‘80s and early ’90s, a time when when…

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IKEA and Tom Dixon Created a Customizable Couch

You can deck out your entire home in IKEA goods and not have to sweat over the credit card bill. That ease and affordability does cost something, however. What you end up with is a pad that looks a lot many other pads. With DELAKTIG, a new couch concept, IKEA…

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