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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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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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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

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

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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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Garrett Wade Brass Capsule EDC Multi-Tool

Garrett Wade has been unearthing, designing or reproducing unique tools that you just won't find anywhere else for more than a few decades. Their latest, the "Beautiful Brass Capsule Multi-Tool", checks all the boxes a tool should check in terms of being properly named, and it is actually quite beautiful.…

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8 Travel Wallets That Won’t Make You Look Like a Tourist

Traveling internationally requires a lot of things. You need a passport. You need international currency. You need a grasp on the language of the place you're visiting. You need a travel wallet, a passport wallet that will conveniently hold all your important documents without making you a target. Here are…

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A Documentary About International Barbecue Culture

We don't think it's a stretch to say there's no better food than well barbecued meat. Someone taking the time to cook pork or beef or chicken to perfect succulent smoked deliciousness is an amazing culinary gift. That's the topic Barbecue explores, except this documentary blows the scale out to examine…

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Apollo 70 Airstream Mobile Bar

The Apollo 70 Airstream Land Yacht Mobile Bar has everything you need to throw a party people will be talking about for the rest of their lives. Built by a UK company for their bar and catering business, this Airstream has been turned from a live-in trailer basecamp to a…

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Delordinaire High House

Delordinaire is an architecture studio out of Paris and Montreal that builds ordinary buildings in exceptional ways. Take their High House in Quebec, for instance. Rather than build what many would consider a standard winter chalet on the ground with views of the Mont Saint Anne, Delordinaire utilized elevated stilt…

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