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The American Watchmaker Rebuilding a Lost Craft

Weiss Watch Co. is doing things a bit (or quite a lot) differently with its remarkable USA-made timepieces.

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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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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

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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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Discommon Goods Unveils Their Lowball Sequel “The Pinch”

If you don't remember the name Discommon Goods, they've produced everything from fantastic straight razors and an absurd watch wallet to a positively ridiculous Ferrari piston keychain and one of the best whiskey tumblers out there in the original Lowball tumbler. That original machined aluminum tumbler was so popular that it…

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The Prepster Black Luxury Survival Bag

There's a difference between surviving and surviving in style. If you're more interested in the latter when the zombie apocalypse comes, look no further than The Prepster Black Luxury Survival Bag from Preppi. Inside the black on black coated canvas and natural bridle leather bag you'll find just about everything…

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The World’s Largest Car Vending Machine Was Just Built in Singapore

Plagued with a lack of real estate to house all their luxury supercars in Singapore, Autobahn Motors built the world's largest car vending machine. The 15-story structure has four separate columns for cars to be displayed, which makes it larger than both the original Carvana vending machine and the larger…

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Fragment Design x Converse Chuck Taylor All Star SE Collection

From the Nike Air Max LD-Zero H to the Roshe LD-1000, designer Hiroshi Fujiwara from Fragment Design knows how to take a legendary sneaker and make it even more memorable. In the case of the new Fragment Design x Converse Chuck Taylor All Star SE Collection, Fujiwara worked his magic to…

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The Best Beef Jerky for Your Summer Road Trip

Taking a road trip to check some places off your burger bucket list or brewery bucket list? Killing time with a magazine during the afternoon slump? Got the munchies after a night of trying new beers? You need snacks—beef jerky, specifically. The iconic road trip and workout power snack has…

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