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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
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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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The Firelight Flask Is the First Ever ‘Cheers-able’ Flask

The standard flask was not built for sharing. Not only does one not hold that much booze, but it requires you to swap some saliva with your drinking buddy. The Firelight Flask is a flask built for sharing. Included are two tumblers and a large, 750ml flask, which is enough…

By Mike Newman
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Accessories
Vans Teamed Up With Finisterre for a Collection of Cold-Weather Surf Sneakers

As temps dip, surfers need to layer up before hitting the beach. While traversing the cold, hard, wet ground on their way to catch a few waves, proper footwear is in order. Luckily, Vans, a brand that knows a thing or two about action sports, partnered with British surf brand…

By Mike Newman
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Slane Whiskey: The New Irish Whiskey 10 Centuries in the Making

As far as Irish whiskeys go, Slane has taken a lot of people—critics and casual drinkers alike—by surprise. A couple months back, they invited us out to Slane, County Meath, Ireland, to check out the distillery, learn a little more about the family’s storied history, and sample a bit of…

By Maxwell Barna
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Accessories
Reebok Teamed With ‘Stranger Things’ for a Pair of ’80s Sneakers

Stranger Things returns today and it has us craving all things '80s. So excuse us while we pump some Michael Jackson while trying to cop these new Reebok Ex-O-Fit sneakers. In collaboration with Bait, the sneakers pay homage to the Netflix series with a Stranger Things logo on the sole. Without…

By Mike Newman
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What To Watch This Weekend: Stranger Things Season 2

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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