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Wears My Beer: Duluth Trading Co. x Miller High Life Collection

Wears My Beer: Duluth Trading Co. x Miller High Life Collection

Tailgates, bonfires, and kicking back with a cold one after a long day just got more stylish and functional for fall.

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Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival
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Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Bourbon has never been bigger. And somehow, it still has secrets.

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Hosting is a laborious and often thankless task. Be a better house guest with one of these gifts that go beyond the cliché bottle of wine.

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This Los Angeles-Based Microbrand Makes the Best Tool Watch Under $1,000

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The 205 Best Gifts You Can Give This Year

And so we’ve reached another holiday season. Once again, you have a laundry list of people to shop for. And once again, that list is full of blank spaces where gift ideas should be. This year, skip the aimless wandering of malls and big box store websites and let us…

By Jeff Drumheller
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7 Best Turntable Mats and Slipmats for Everyday Use

Finding the perfect turntable mat for your setup can be more work than you originally did picking out the perfect turntable. Do you want a slipmat or a turntable mat? Rubber turntable mat? Leather turntable mat? Cork turntable mat? Felt turntable mat? As always, the answer is, "it depends." Record slipmats…

By Cooper Fleishman
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No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999

Told through a collection of club flyers from the personal archives of NYC DJs, promotors, club kids, nightlife impresarios and the artists themselves, No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999 is a visual history of the golden era of New York City club life. Put together by world renowned DJ Stretch…

By Cooper Fleishman
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GoPro Karma Grip

One of the greatest features of the GoPro Karma Drone was the fact that the stabilizing mount could be removed with your camera attached and be installed into the Karma Grip so you could capture stabilized videos on the ground too. And now the GoPro Karma Grip is finally available…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Vanguard Roadster

If you're a fan of metal—the material, not the music—and a sort of raw and industrial look, you're going to love the first bike from NYC-based Vanguard. Started by a couple of former Confederate Motorcycles guys, the company's first bike, The Roadster, looks like it was clad in sheet metal. All designed,…

By Mike Newman
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