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I Took This Backpack on a Solo Trip and Haven’t Stopped Using It Since

What started as a backpack for a solo trip to Lisbon quickly became my favorite carry-on, weekend bag, and daily companion.

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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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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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‘Stranger Things’ Season 2 Final Trailer

We're in the home stretch for the return of Stranger Things, which returns to Netflix later this month. To help build anticipation, first there was a Super Bowl teaser commercial, and then there was a Comic Con trailer. That all leads to this, the final trailer for the coming season of Stranger Things, and…

By Mike Newman
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You Can Buy Keith Richards’s NYC Penthouse

If you're ready to graduate from wrecking hotel rooms and want to settle down, you can follow the trajectory of Keith Richards. Richards is selling his Manhattan pad for a cool twelve mill. While you probably down have the change to make such a purchase, you can at least dream…

By Mike Newman
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Cups Coffee Fills Pods With Fresh Coffee for Your Keurig

We'd advise you to move away from the Keurig as your method of coffee creation. That said, we get it; a Keurig is quick and convenient. One of the issues, however, is coffee freshness, as those pods aren't exactly offering the freshly ground experience a true coffee lover craves. The…

By Mike Newman
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Clothing
Mack Weldon’s Ace Pants are Attractive Sweats That Offer Next-Level Comfort

Style and comfort have always been at odds. You can have one or the other, but you can never have both. With the Ace Pant, Mack Weldon is changing that. Constructed from a micro-sanded, exceedingly soft French Terry equipped with the perfect amount of stretch, Ace Pants make relaxing almost…

By Mike Newman
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This 1967 Mustang Is a Corvette in Disguise

On his quest to make a badass hotrod, Canadian fabricator and all-around madman Kyle Scaife did something many car purists will balk at—he combined the blue oval and the bowtie. It all started when Scaife was inspired to create a build of his own after working on a Viper-powered Plymouth…

By Cooper Fleishman
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