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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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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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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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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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The Secret Bar in the Grand Central Terminal has Reopened

For years, the Campbell Apartment served great, old-fashioned cocktails in a setting to match without most commuters ever getting wise to its existence. Now, new owners have decided to bring the bar out of hiding, hoping to share the cocktail bar with the public in a way it hasn't been…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Home
Wikkelhouse Cardboard Prefab

Designed and developed by the Amsterdam-based collective of creatives known as Fiction Factory, the Wikkelhouse prefab is made with cardboard and other eco-friendly materials. The gorgeous and simple structure is built in modular sections made out of dozens of layers of cardboard covered with wood paneling inside and out that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The 10 Most Beautiful Gas Stations in the World

Whether you're taking a cross-country road trip or just filling up on a trek home, gas stations are all but essential for reasons other than great beef jerky and fuel. The folks at DesignCurial took the process of the fill up to the next level by ranking the 10 most beautiful…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The 8 Best Travel Backpacks for Summer Adventure

What separates a standard backpack from a travel backpack? That depends on who you ask. For our purposes, we want a few things out of a travel backpack. It has to open more like a piece of carry-on luggage than a top-loading backpack. It has to have a little squishiness…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Tech
BIKI Underwater Fish Drone

We love a great drone as much as the next guy, but there's always been a gap in an area we want to explore—underwater. The BIKI Wireless Underwater Fish Drone will make exploring a portion of the 71 percent of the Earth that's covered in water easier than ever. The…

By Cooper Fleishman
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