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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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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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Rimowa Is Adding Digital Luggage Tags to Their Suitcases

From photographers traveling the world with expensive shooting kits to people who want a next level amount of protection, Rimowa makes what many consider to be the best luggage on the planet. While everyone else is upgrading their bags with batteries, scooter functionality and sliding doors, Rimowa is adding digital…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Mercedes-Benz E-Class All-Terrain 4×4² Concept

Leave it to the madmen at Mercedes to take an E-Class wagon and turn it into a badass all-terrain 4x4 beast. The Mercedes-Benz E-Class All-Terrain 4x4² Concept started as a standard E-Class All-Terrain that evolved into what you see here when one particular engineer, Jürgen Eberle, decided to upgrade the existing wagon…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Tech
Phoozy Protects Your Phone with Rocket Science

When you head to the beach or the pool you protect yourself with sunscreen, and the same goes for warmer layers on the slopes or the cold. Now you can make sure the computer in your pocket is as safe as you are. Phoozy is the "world's first thermal capsule for…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Misc
Alice Cooper Just Found an Incredibly Valuable Warhol Silkscreen

Back in the '70s, before Andy Warhol was a huge star, Alice Cooper received a silkscreen by the artist as a birthday gift from his then-girlfriend Cindy Lang. Cooper and Warhol were friends and shared a peculiar interest in electric chairs. That's why Lang went ahead and gifted him a…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Our 7 Favorite Fitness Models on Instagram

While we're all for ladies looking good, on Instagram, we enjoy women who value the fitness aspect over the model aspect. There are way too many "fitness models" that would rather post lifestyle pictures and selfies of themselves looking sexy than the workouts that help them maintain their bodies. Pay attention…

By Cooper Fleishman
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