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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

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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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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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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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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Sound Heroes are the Least Boxy Bluetooth Speakers You’ve Seen

Not every Bluetooth speaker has to be a box or a pill. Some of them can be futuristic robot superheroes. The Kalium Sound Hero is exactly that, a polygonal statue standing tall on its bass pumping base, spewing sound of the highest quality from its chest. The statues come in…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Tentrr Is Airbnb for Camping

Want to spend some time in the woods without having to lug your favorite tent or camping gear with you? Enter Tentrr, which is basically Airbnb for camping. Each of the more than 50 Tentrr camping sites scattered throughout New York is fully-equipped for an entire weekend of fun without the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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8 Tactical Gloves for Keeping Your Hands Alive

What do you need tactical gloves for? Protecting your hands while shooting at the range or hunting. Epic games of paintball. Working with power tools. Tackling the DIY project list. Just keeping your damn hands warm. Your EDC kit is already outfitted with tactical pens and flashlights, so why not add…

By Cooper Fleishman
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How to Make Black Lemonade

Thought the black food trend that gained all that traction after the Burger King Black Burger and their Halloween Whopper was gone? Wrong. Black ice cream, pizza crust, black lemonade and plenty of other foods as dark as your soul are here in a big way, and they're probably not…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Own a Beautifully Restored 1966 Ford Bronco

Barret-Jackson is well known for pulling out all the stops when it comes to the ridiculous collection of automobiles at their auctions, and the Northeast Auction at the Mohegan Sun from June 21–24 is no different. Though owning a cherry '71 Hemi Challenger R/T or a '70 Pontiac GTO Convertible…

By Cooper Fleishman
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