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The Italian Art of Dressing Well in the Heat

Luca Faloni’s summer collection makes a compelling case for dressing like an Italian all summer long.

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Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

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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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Volkswagen’s Electric Microbus Is Coming in 2022

In 5 years, the past and the future will meet, as Volkswagen's I.D. Buzz, the company's long-teased electric bus hits showrooms. Originally unveiled at the North American International Auto Show earlier this year, the adventure-ready vehicle blends the old school charm of the iconic VW bus with modern tech. Electric motors…

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Trendy Butler Is the Apparel Subscription Service You Need

Regardless of whether your personal tastes skew towards casual or work, print or pattern, denim or chino, Trendy Butler has you covered with a monthly subscription box personalized just for you. Each unique box is built using sophisticated artificial intelligence that references your taste, fit and pattern preferences with individual…

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Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life

With a title like Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into You Life it's easy to see why Gary John Bishop's new book is one of the few we'd recommend from the world of self-improvement. Bishop's book dispenses with the traditionally nonsensical knowledge you'd find in other self…

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Whiskey from the Guy Who Taught Jack Daniels to Make Whiskey

Jack Daniels wasn't born knowing how to make whiskey.  Someone had to teach him and that someone isn't who you'd expect.  Uncle Nearest, born Nathan Green, was a slave in Tennessee who first taught a young Jack Daniels how to distill.  The two worked together when Green was rented to…

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Turn Your PS4 into a Classy Piece of Wood Furniture

The PS4 has never been an unattractive machine, with its modern, angular sensibilities and non-aggressiveness black coloring. But no matter how attractive a game console is, it still somehow sticks out like a sore thumb in or on an entertainment center. Covering it in wood might help though. Toast will…

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