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The Iconic REEF Fanning Sandal Just Hit Legal Drinking Age

Four new models join the family of clever, beach-bum approved sandals featuring a bottle opener in the sole

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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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Travel
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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Feeling the Burn

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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

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50
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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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Heineken Just Released the Commercial Pepsi Should Have Made

We recommend that any brand looking to tackle a major social issue in one of its ads pump the brakes. More often than not, you'll be met with overwhelming—and well-deserved—backlash for leveraging something actually important to greedily move your product. You don't want to be the next Pepsi. Heineken, however,…

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Call of Duty Returns to World War II

In recent years, Call of Duty has felt like it was floundering for ideas a bit. The franchise had extreme early success with its initial World War II setting, but fatigue set in as every other major and minor game developer threw their lot into the Nazi shooting escapades of the…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Fashion
You Can Customize the Shinola Canfield Bolt 250 Different Ways

Every time Shinola releases a new watch we find another stylish timepiece that immediately becomes a favorite. Their latest, The Canfield Bolt, is another instant hit, but this time around the watch is also customizable. Each one of the options in The Canfield Bolt line (there are almost 250 different…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The New Camp Cookbook

If your outdoor or wilderness food preparation is limited to Jiffy Pop, marshmallows and hot dogs you need a copy of The New Camp Cookbook. Billed as "a book for day trippers, adventurers, campers and anyone who enjoys cooking outdoors," The New Camp Cookbook: Gourmet Grub for Campers, Road Trippers…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Seiko Is Recreating Their First Dive Watch

In 1965, when watches with high water resistance weren't widely available, Seiko produced their first ever dive watch in the Seiko 62MAS (reference 6217). Decades later, Seiko is recreating their first dive watch with a few different editions that will be available throughout the year and present very different takes…

By Cooper Fleishman
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