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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

The smartest summer wardrobes aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones where every piece works with every other piece.

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The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
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Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

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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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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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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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How This Cryptic Vinegar Estate in Germany Sparked My Cocktail Shrub Era

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The American Watchmaker Rebuilding a Lost Craft

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A Pilgrimage to Italy’s Iconic Superbikes and Supercars in Emilia-Romagna

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Faribault Woolen Mills U.S. Military Blankets

Since the 1890s, Faribault Woolen Mill has crafted blankets for our military. These blankets are prized for their sturdy construction, which allows them to stand up to the most difficult conditions. You may not need one for overseas deployment, but you can still enjoy the benefits at home. Choose either…

By Mike Newman
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LEGO Yellow Submarine

Combine your love of The Beatles with your love of LEGO with the latest creation to come out of LEGO Ideas, Yellow Submarine. Kevin Szeto—amateur musician, songwriter and LEGO aficionado—designed and built the Yellow Submarine model as a way of showing affection for The Beatles and paying tribute to The Beatles…

By Cooper Fleishman
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What the iPhone 7 Means for Photographers

One of the strongest selling points of the new iPhone 7 is its new and improved camera. We’ve heard a lot about it—the dual 12-megapixel rear lenses, the ability to shoot RAW images, the new 6-element f/1.8 glass, optical image stabilization, optical zoom. From the way Tim Cook and the…

By Maxwell Barna
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The Penguin Galaxy Series Boxed Set Includes the Greatest Sci-Fi Books Ever

Available in mid-November, the Penguin Galaxy Series 6-Book Deluxe Boxed Set combines six of their greatest science fiction and fantasy novels in a lucite box worthy of display. Inside that cool display you'll find collector-worthy hardcover editions of The Once and Future King by T. H. White, Stranger in a Strange Land…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Tanner Goods Herb Collection

Portland-based Tanner Goods has been making awesome products from leather bracelets and coasters, to linen notebooks and brass pens for as long we can remember. Now, they're branching out to smoking accessories with the Tanner Goods Herb Collection. Designed and built to look, feel and perform better than the herb…

By Cooper Fleishman
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