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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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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

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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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There’s a Show Based on the Life of Hunter S. Thompson in the Works

Hunter S. Thompson's life and work was fueled by drugs and chaos. Soon, that insanity will be making its way to your television screen, as Davey Holmes, the executive producer of Shameless and Get Shorty, among other things, is taking a crack at developing a TV show based on the life…

By Mike Newman
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The Electronic Alphabet Features Some of the Most Well-Known Brands

Vinicius Araujo is a Rio de Janeiro-based designer who has taken a collection of well-known brands and turned them into a font. While it's not exactly usable for drafting a Word document, it is fun to look at. The first letter of each brand's name is used to spell out…

By Mike Newman
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The New York Times Is Looking For Someone to Travel the World

Every year, The New York Times releases its 52 Places to Go list, and every year we get insanely jealous of the person who has the cash and time to make all those visits happen. Truth is, there are probably very few—if any—people who check off each destination in the calendar year. That's…

By Mike Newman
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East Coast Defender Project Barbour

When you're a revered brand like Orvis or Barbour and you're launching a new Land Rover Defender Collection of clothing, there's only one way to do it—with a custom Land Rover Defender that will travel the country for launch events. Those two brands teamed up with the one and only…

By Cooper Fleishman
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An Audi Designer Made a Better TIE Fighter for Darth Vader

We've long loved Audi vehicles for their blend of performance and sophisticated good looks. One of the many people responsible for those gorgeous beasts is Jason Battersby, an exterior automotive designer for the brand. When not helping craft the next Audi, Battersby moonlights as a designer for the Galactic Empire.…

By Mike Newman
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