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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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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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I Went Down a Nixon Watch Rabbit Hole. Here Are the 4 Most Surprising Details I Found

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Apple’s iPhone X Unlocks Through Facial Recognition

The long-rumored iPhone X is here. The talk going into today's Apple event centered on the price of the new, more exclusive iPhone, as rumors of a $1,000 price tag circulated for weeks. Well, now we know the iPhone X will run you $999. So what do you get for…

By Mike Newman
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Fashion
Nordstrom’s New Store Has Beer but No Clothing

Retail giant Nordstrom just released details on Nordstrom Local, a small retail concept store opening in LA later this year. The 3,000-square-foot store focuses on a more individually tailored experience that will have you sipping beer, wine or espresso as you interact with Personal Stylists and have your clothes tailored.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Best Gear to Help You Look Good When You Get Back to Work

Dress for the job you want, right? Want the corner office and a fatter paycheck? Cleaning yourself up can only help. Luckily, nailing an appropriate look is a lot easier than most guys think. Keep your grooming in check and toss on some clothing that’s not plucked from your college…

By Mike Newman
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How to Infuse Your Own Alcohol

The word “infusion” is appropriate. Rather than having a juice, extract, or sugar syrup that gets mixed into the spirit or cocktail, this processes fuses the flavors of whatever you’ve chosen with the deeper foundations of the drink. The same way aging whiskey in barrels changes and amplifies different aspects…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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‘Downsizing’ Official Trailer

Instead of thinking big to solve the problem of over-population, maybe we need to think small. That's the idea behind Downsizing, a new film from Alexander Payne that stars Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, and Christoph Waltz. The solution, as presented in the movie, is a device that shrinks people. But this…

By Mike Newman
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