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On Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, 20 Years Later

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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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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

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

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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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10 Movies We’re Looking Forward to This Fall

Whether you're looking to hide from rapidly dropping temperatures or just looking for an escape from real life, fall movie season means plenty of blockbuster hits and indie flicks that are perfect to pass the time until you start watching Charlie Brown movies and It's a Wonderful Life on repeat.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Chevrolet 1967 C-10 Pickup

If you're at all into trucks, you know that Chevrolet has been celebrating 100 years of truck making this year. This fanfare has been accompanied by a few Centennial Edition vehicles and plenty of merch. That's all fine and good, but the highlight of the celebration, for us, has to…

By Mike Newman
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This Basketball Court Is Inspired By Toy Blocks

It's been a long time since we've play with Logical Blocks, those foam shapes that came in a handful of solid colors. For a dose of nostalgia, artist Katrien Vanderlinden used the learning toys as inspiration for her latest piece, a basketball court in Aalst, Belgium. Like Pigalle and other artists…

By Mike Newman
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Honda Riding Assist-e Self-Balancing Motorcycle

Earlier this year at CES, Honda unveiled their self-balancing concept motorcycle based on UNI-CUB technology and it was impressive to say the least. The riding assist technology from that first bike has evolved for the new Honda Riding Assist-e self-balancing concept motorcycle that's set to be unveiled at the 45th…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Arkonik Avant-garde Edition Land Rover Defender

There are only a small handful of brands we'd trust with six figures of our money to build us a proper Defender, and Arkonik is one of them. The Avant-garde is a Bonatti Grey (that dark, rich gray that perfectly contrasts both black and silver) Land Rover 110 with enough…

By Cooper Fleishman
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