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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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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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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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Atari is Making a New Console

Atari hasn't been a relevant name in hardware production in years, so their recent announcement of an impending console release came as a surprise. What's more is the console doesn't seem to be the retro collection box you'd expect. Instead of packing games into an updated system the way the NES…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Fender Built a Guitar with Benches from the Hollywood Bowl

The Fender Custom Shop has made some pretty incredible things over the years. They've released an amp made with wood leftover from building the U.S.S. Constitution and one made from whiskey barrels, and now Fender has built a guitar with benches from the Hollywood Bowl. What began almost a century…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The 11 Best New Video Games You Should Play

Gaming can be one of the most rewarding hobbies there is, but it can also take some serious cash to wade through the new releases. Some games will blow your mind, while other either can’t or don’t live up to the hype, so you just chucked 60 bucks into the…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The Reverse Sear Steak is the Tip to Know this Summer

At this point, we’ve heard—probably literally—a million different ways to grill a steak. Char-grilled, flat top, cast-iron skillet… Hell, we’ve even heard about steak cooked in water. But a “new” method that’s popped up recently and making waves is the reverse sear. We use new in quotes because it actually…

By Maxwell Barna
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The Best Book Covers of 2016

If you were to judge a book by its cover, each of these would win the Pulitzer. AIGA Design Archive, which has been cataloging great design since the '20s, teamed up with Design Observer to crown the best designed books of last year. Two lists were released. One of the lists includes…

By Mike Newman
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