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How to Serve Great Cocktails Without Missing Your Own Party

World-class spirits, classic cocktails, and no time spent shaking and stirring.

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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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7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop
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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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For the beach, the lake, the trail, and wherever you like disappearing to on summer weekends.

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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 Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Day Drinking: 50 Cocktails for a Mellow Buzz

Growing up with European parents, Kat Odell was exposed to alcohol at an age without the traditionally American gateway of the 21st birthday. Odell pulls from that same upbringing and an extensive list of alcohols to create a book that is appropriately titled Day Drinking: 50 Cocktails for a Mellow Buzz.…

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