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Head to Healdsburg, Wine Weirdos

A long weekend in Sonoma's most effortlessly charming town, where good wine is just one reason to visit.

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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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Fan-Made Movie Posters Better than the Originals

The key to a great movie poster is capturing the atmosphere of the film. Those ensemble posters you see on blockbusters might satisfy actors’ agents, but for the audience, we miss out on crucial details, like genre, plot, and sometimes even the title. When we look at a poster, we…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Auto Fabrica Type 0.1 Is the Minibike of Your Dreams

When we were growing up, BMX bikes were the coolest things on two wheels that we were allowed to ride solo. If the Auto Fabrica Type 0.1 Minibike existed back then we probably would have tried harder to convince our parents that we really needed what essentially amounts to a miniature…

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The New Google Pixel Buds Translate in Real Time

There were quite a few things revealed at the Google Pixel 2 event in San Francisco this week. If we’re being completely honest, the most revolutionary thing to us was a seemingly unassuming pair of earbuds because the new Google Pixel Buds translate in real time. Yes, you read that…

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This Contest Rewards Pilots For Creating Artwork in the Sky

By using Cloud Ahoy, a service that tracks flight routes, pilots are getting the chance to showcase their creative sides. The Wild Blue Doodle Contest rewards the pilot who can "draw" the most creative, well done piece of art based on their flight pattern. There are 10 to choose from…

By Mike Newman
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Limited Edition Ai Weiwei Works for Sale on eBay

Ai Weiwei, the world-renowned artist and activist, has teamed up with the Public Art Fund, New York City's premier presenter of contemporary outdoor art, to put on a unique, 300+ site exhibition this fall that will span all five boroughs. The exhibition is called "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" and…

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