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Our Favorite Finds From Bespoke Post’s Fourth of July Sale

Up to 50% off. These are the pieces we'd grab before they're gone.

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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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Travel
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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Feeling the Burn

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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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Airbnb Reveals the Most Wish-Listed Homes of 2017

Airbnb has changed the travel game forever. No longer are you relegated to Best Westerns and fine hotels that cost more than the airfare to get to them. As we close out 2017, Airbnb has revealed the properties that were wish-listed the most this past year. The most wish-listed for…

By Mike Newman
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Food
Hopsy Brings Fresh Craft Beer on Tap to Your Home

There's no shortage of great taprooms in the area--why shouldn’t your home be one of them? Enter The SUB, a revolutionary home draft system from Hopsy. The plug-and-play countertop system uses 67oz mini-kegs delivered cold and direct to your door by Hopsy. So whether you’re thinking of giving yourself a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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InstaSaber Is an App That Puts a Lightsaber in Your Hand

Augmented reality is probably going to be the next big thing in games and time-wasting apps, and 2020CV, a company founded by Hart Woolery, a recent grad, is giving us an awesome glimpse into what that future could hold. The company is set to release InstaSaber, an AR app that…

By Mike Newman
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What to Watch This Weekend: Jean-Claude Van Johnson

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…

By Mike Newman
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‘Identity’ Profiles One of the Most Legendary Design Firms

For the uninitiated, Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv is a New York-based design firm that's responsible for some of the most iconic logos you see every day. What logos? NBC. PBS. Showtime. Mobil. Chase Bank. We could go on. Now the legendary firm is getting the retrospective it deserves. Identity: Chermayeff…

By Mike Newman
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