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Italy From Home

How to stock your pantry, fridge, and bar cart like an Italian.

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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
By Lanny Fuller
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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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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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We Spent a Night In a Haunted Castle. Here’s What Happened.

When it comes to “haunted” things, we’re generally pretty skeptical people. It has nothing to do with religion, superstition, belief in the afterlife or any of the other stuff that motivates people to believe in it; we’re just pragmatic. We just try to limit the things we worry about to…

By Maxwell Barna
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Own Steve Jobs 2000 BMW Z8

We've seen quite a few iconic, excellent and stupidly expensive cars roll across the block during RM Sotheby's auctions, but we've never seen one that was once owned by the iconic Steve Jobs. That's right, you have the opportunity to own Steve Jobs 2000 BMW Z8. An iconic automobile in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Rubika Bookcase Is a Mind-Bending Shelving System

We're all for hanging a great piece of art on the wall--especially when it comes from one of our favorite art and print shops--but there's just something about a quality piece of furniture that's artistic in its own right that can really make a room. Case in the point, the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The 2018 Ural Gear Up Is an Adventure-Ready Sidecar Motorcycle

Ural has been producing some of the most beloved heavy sidecar motorcycles since the WWII era. The bikes have changed quite a lot over the years, but they're still what Jay Leno describes as "the perfect mix of modern and retro." The new 2018 Ural Gear Up motorcycle leaves us…

By Cooper Fleishman
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This VW Bus Was Made In Honor of ‘Back to the Future’

If Doc Brown needed to take a few passengers back to the future, the DeLorean would have been a poor choice. Let's be honest, space was not the DeLorean's strong suit. The perfect vehicle for hitting 88 mph with some friends and family is this 1967 VW Bus Bus outfitted…

By Mike Newman
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