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The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

The swim shorts, half-zip, and retro runners that became the 20% of my summer wardrobe doing 80% of the work.

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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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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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Summer’s Best Watches Under $1,500

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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How This Cryptic Vinegar Estate in Germany Sparked My Cocktail Shrub Era

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

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The American Watchmaker Rebuilding a Lost Craft

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A Pilgrimage to Italy’s Iconic Superbikes and Supercars in Emilia-Romagna

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The Italian Art of Dressing Well in the Heat

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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…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Entertainment
8 New Books to Read to End the Summer

Whether you read on a tablet, Kindle, or still prefer the smell of a freshly cracked paperback, finding your next book is never easy. You could never read all the new novels, biographies, or nonfiction tomes released each week, so we’re here to help. These are a handful of the…

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