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How to Serve Great Cocktails Without Missing Your Own Party

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The Case for Nashville as Your Next Golf Getaway
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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy
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The $1,200 Sneaker Giveaway ​

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7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop

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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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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

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Arctic Bath Is a Floating Hotel in Sweden

While it looks like a building modeled after the iron throne, the Arctic Bath has nothing to do with Game of Thrones and everything to do with enjoying the Northern Lights. Scheduled to open next year, the Swedish hotel floats on water and offers incredible views of the Aurora Borealis. Of course,…

By Mike Newman
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The Best Nail Clippers You Won’t Find at the Grocery Store

Good hygiene is essential for every man, and not just because no one wants to go get a drink with a guy who smells like the inside of a trashcan on a summer evening. Keeping one’s hair combed, odor in check, nails clipped, and shoes shined is classic cool. Of…

By Maxwell Barna
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‘Micro but Many’ Is an Online Gallery of Micro Machines

We can still hear the Micro Machine Man flying through a script if we try hard enough. Those pint-sized vehicles he was the spokesperson for were a big part of our childhood. We aren't alone. Tim Smith, who grew up in the '80s, also loved his Micro Machines and has…

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Azio Luxury Leather Vintage Keyboard

Before seeing the Azio luxury leather vintage keyboard we would have told you the best upgrade you could make to your home or office setup would have been a mechanical keyboard. This certainly still applies because it's mechanical, but it's also so much more than that. Using a typewriter-style individual…

By Cooper Fleishman
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This Watch Winder Is Made from an Engine

The world of horology and racing have long overlapped. While we've seen plenty of watches developed for drivers and racing enthusiasts alike, we've never anything like the Vulcan Innova. The Vulcan Innova is a watch winder crafted from an inline 6 engine block. The inline 6, as opposed to the V6, was the…

By Mike Newman
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