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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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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 Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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Pretend to Be a Modern English Lord at the Backwater House

We're always on the lookout for our next vacation destination and we may have just found it. The Backwater House is a sort of modern take on the traditional log cabin. Its interior has a clean, updated look that both contradicts and compliments its secluded lagoon surroundings. The house is…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Halo is the World’s First Fully Compostable Coffee Pod

Coffee pods haven't exactly been the greatest thing for the environment. It would seem everyone prioritizes their morning buzz over environmentally sustainable products. Everyone except Nils Leonard. Leonard, previously chief creative officer of renowned advertising firm Grey London, recently launched Halo, the first completely compostable coffee pod company. Along with…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Braeön Will Fix Almost Anything

Braeön is a high strength, lightweight plastic ribbon that bonds to itself after heating to create or repair almost anything you can think of. It's as strong as steel, as thin as paper and will fit in anything from a bag to a toolbox. Here's how it works: Heat the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Mad Max Cars Without the Dirt

John Platt is a unit stills photographer with three decades of film industry work that got the opportunity to shoot all the vehicles (aka the real stars of the show) from Mad Max: Fury Road before they got filthy. "Before the Dirt - The Cars of Mad Max: Fury Road"…

By Cooper Fleishman
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What to Drink This Weekend: The Tommy Gun

The Tommy Gun was inspired by the fall/winter harvests in New York State. It’s made up of pear liqueur, bitters, Connemara, lemon juice, cane syrup, cardamaro, rye and Armagnac. The flavors of apple and pear combine with walnut to give it a rich, warming flavor. “We used spirits that compliment…

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