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The Coolest Places to Watch the World Cup Around the Globe

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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 Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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This Designer Built a Workspace Under a Bridge

Fernando Abellanas is a self-taught designer out of Spain that responded to the current urban space shortage in Valencia by building his own private workspace under a bridge. The furniture designer that practices as Lebrel used a unique crank system with wheels and a sliding base to create a movable…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Nebula Mars Portable Cinema Does Exactly What the Name Promises

With tablets, laptops, and cell phones, media consumption might have gone mobile, but those screens are all tiny. Movies are meant to be enjoyed on enormous screens with rich sound, which is an experience that's incredibly hard to make portable. But JBL did it when they created the Nebula Mars…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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100 Essential Films Scratch-Off Chart

Pop Chart Lab makes some of our favorite pieces of wall art on the market. The art and print shop is adding to their collection of whiskey charts, camera compendiums and cocktail posters with the 100 Essential Films Scratch-Off Chart. As the name implies, this particular 18" x 24" poster is…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Reading Chairs We’re Loving Right Now

We all have a few very important pieces of furniture in our homes and offices. Beds, couches, table and desks are the first things that come to mind, but that list should really include a good reading chair. Whether it's in your living room, your office, your bedroom or your library (if…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Lyric Speaker Visualizes Your Song Lyrics

While we would never cop to not being able to tell the difference between the rain versus Lorraine, Aquarius versus asparagus, or gonna leave her versus a believer, there are quite a few verses and choruses that have tripped people up over the years. If you want to make sure…

By Cooper Fleishman
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