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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

The smartest summer wardrobes aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones where every piece works with every other piece.

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The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
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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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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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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

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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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Damián Ortega’s Disassembled Art Installations

Damián Ortega is a Mexican artist living and working out of Mexico City with a career that started as a political cartoonist but has ballooned into something far more sculptural. He made waves originally with a piece made entirely of tortillas that could be arranged at will for different showings…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
This Guitar Is Built from Old Whiskey Casks

Music and whiskey have gone together for as long as the two have existed, and for the Irish, Lowden and Bushmills have made a significant impact on each, respectively. George Lowden has been building guitars in Ireland since 1974 and Bushmills has been distilling for about ten times as long…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Gear
Rhone Makes Elevated Activewear for Men

Fellas, we've been left behind in the activewear game for too long. For years, activewear for men simple meant loose-fitting clothing that's so unattractive you won't mind sweat stains and rips and tears at the seams. Rhone has set out to change that. Rhone is the collective vision of a…

By Jeff Drumheller
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Fashion
Nike Air Max LD-Zero

When Nike dropped the Air Max LD-Zero H it was to much fanfare because of the collaboratively designed sneaker, material contrast and an aesthetic revival of a design from the '70s. As you might imagine, with stamps from Hiroshi Fujiwara (of Fragment), Tinker Hatfield and Mark Parker it wasn't easy…

By Cooper Fleishman
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INDOCHINO Will Make You a Custom Suit and Leave Your Wallet Intact

A custom suit will fit perfectly but cost a fortune. A suit from a rack will be affordable but won't look perfect. INDOCHINO wants you to have the best of both worlds. INDOCHINO uses 14 of your exact dimensions to create a suit that fits insanely well—for under 400 bucks.…

By Mike Newman
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