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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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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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What to Watch This Weekend: The Mars Generation

With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend, a series in which we give you our pick for the best new show or…

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12 Survival Knives for Every Budget

When it comes to the tools you need in a survival situation there are few that are as important as a survival knife. Your standard everyday carry folding knife is great for smaller, daily tasks, but when it comes to chopping, batoning (splitting wood using a knife and the assistance…

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Ted Baker’s Piranha Bag Is the Work Bag That Sets You Apart

Bringing your own style to the office is a challenge. There are certain codes you have to abide by. That's why we're big fans of the Piranha Bag from Ted Baker. It's the work bag that doesn't look like every other work bag. The two-tone design pairs a rich red…

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‘Hair’ Is a Short Film from John Turturro

John Turturro, best known for playing incredibly unique characters like Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski and the eczema-suffering John Stone in The Night Of, steps behind the camera for this little gem of a film. In collaboration with rag & bone, Turturro created Hair, a short that's an official 2017 Tribeca Film Festival…

By Mike Newman
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Meet Korea’s Most Famous Balancing Artist

Most people are excited if they can balance a pencil on their finger and are thrilled if they get an egg to stand upright. Rocky Byun starts his interview by balancing a motorcycle, so he's a bit better than whoever you knew in grade school or the guy at the…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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