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The Coolest Places to Watch the World Cup Around the Globe

A pool house in Austin inspired me to spend way too much time looking into this.

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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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Travel
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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The 9 Best Titles Coming to Amazon Prime This Month

After months of covering Amazon Prime Streaming’s new releases, we think we’ve finally figured out their angle. Every month, the team at Amazon puts together a pretty massive list of some rather intriguing titles that include a couple blockbuster hits, some solid original content, and a bunch of obscure documentaries,…

By Maxwell Barna
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What You Should Watch This Weekend: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend, a series in which we give you our pick for the best new show or…

By Mike Newman
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The New LEGO Millennium Falcon Is the Largest Set Ever

LEGO just pulled back the curtain on their newly updated Millennium Falcon set that comes out later this year. With 7,541 pieces in the set, it officially dethrones the Taj Mahal as the largest LEGO set ever created. The model includes everything you'd expect from a highly detailed LEGO version…

By Cooper Fleishman
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This Is a Generic Millennial Ad

Dissolve is a stock footage and photography company that took some of their pieces and created the hilarious and topical "This Is a Generic Millennial Ad" to mock marketing targeted at millennials. Created with And/Or studio, "This Is a Generic Millennial Ad parodies the multinational brands that pay lip service…

By Cooper Fleishman
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BittBoy Handheld Retro Gaming Device

The games of the original Nintendo Entertainment System are perfect for quality mobile gaming. They're simple, challenging, entertaining, colorful, and have stood up well in the face of more modern game consoles. The problem is, mobile options for the games were rare.  Creating a portable emulator is generally a difficult…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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