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The American Watchmaker Rebuilding a Lost Craft

Weiss Watch Co. is doing things a bit (or quite a lot) differently with its remarkable USA-made timepieces.

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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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Moonshots: 50 Years of NASA Space Exploration Seen through Hasselblad Cameras

Your last-minute holiday gift has arrived for anyone with a barren coffee table on your list. Moonshots: 50 Years of NASA Space Exploration Seen through Hasselblad Cameras is 240-page hardcover filled with stunning photos of space and Earth plucked from NASA's archives. Every picture you see was shot with a Hasselblad…

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Makedo Cardboard Construction Toolset

Believe it or not, there will be times when kids and kids at heart need a break from the LEGO bricks. Shockingly, the 1,000th boxy car just doesn't hold the same appeal as the first few. For the budding DIYer in search of something else, consider Makedo's Cardboard Construction Toolset.…

By Mike Newman
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Arkonik Land Rover Defender Project KOOP 110

Arkonik, the English company that builds and hand assembles some of our favorite Land Rover Defenders, is back with a new model that's definitely going to turn some heads. The Arkonik Land Rover Project KOOP 110—so named because it's a Defender 110 built for the KOOP family farm that's been…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gift Pick: Yaket Ice

Your standard ice pack was not meant to coexist with the beer can. That's kind of strange when you consider 90% of the time we are using one to keep beverages cold. (The other 10% is for icing injuries that happened after drinking those beers.) The Yaket Ice is a…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
The 11 Best Shows You Didn’t Watch this Year

This year continued the trend of producing great TV, which also continues the trend of you not having enough time to watch everything you might have wanted to. But just like last year and the year before that and the year before that, the holidays hopefully include a lot of…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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