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I Took This Backpack on a Solo Trip and Haven’t Stopped Using It Since

What started as a backpack for a solo trip to Lisbon quickly became my favorite carry-on, weekend bag, and daily companion.

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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 Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

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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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150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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Loft Kolasiński Countryside Guest House

Loft Kolasiński is a European interior design studio that outfits spaces with some seriously attractive furnishings. Here, they've applied their eye for style to a guest house in the Polish countryside—and the results are nothing short of stunning. The design studio used vintage lighting, wooden accents, and even old electronics…

By Mike Newman
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The Most Expensive Home Ever Listed in America Has a Swim-Up Bar, Helicopter and a Car Collection

We don't have $250 million. You don't have $250 million. But maybe if we all come together and pool our money we might be able to afford the most expensive home ever listed in America because—shockingly—it may actually be worth it. Consider some of the things included with the 12-bedroom…

By Mike Newman
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Meet the Snow Guardian, a Hermit Who Has Tracked Snowfall for 40 Years

billy barr (that's how he writes it) lives in a small house he helped build in one of the coldest places in the US—Gothic, Colorado. According to billy, "the main thing I interacted with was the weather and the animals, so I started recording things just cause it was something…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Vanda Electrics Dendrobium Hypercar

Vanda Electrics is a Singapore-based electric vehicles startup that's unveiling a 1,000 HP hypercar that looks like the Batmobile at the Geneva Motor Show. Produced in partnership with Williams Engineering (the company responsible for the Jaguar C-X75 concept), the Dendrobium concept is electric in both power train and looks thanks…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Graffiti in Unexpected Places by Josh Keyes

Josh Keyes is an internationally-recognized, Portland-based artist with a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Yale University School of Art who paints in a style that is best described as traditional graffiti in unconventional places. His acrylic on birch paintings are part of different private…

By Cooper Fleishman
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