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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

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
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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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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now

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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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Summer’s Best Watches Under $1,500

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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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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The Italian Art of Dressing Well in the Heat

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Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook

Mobb Deep's Albert "Prodigy" Johnson joins Gustavo "Goose" Alvarez on the list of renowned prison cooks/authors with the release of Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook. The follow up to Prodigy's My Infamous Life, also co-written by critically-acclaimed journalist and author Kathy Iandoli, has plenty of recipes that were developed…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The DJI Mavic Pro Drone Fits in a Backpack

Every time DJI releases a new drone they set the bar on what's possible a little higher. The improvement this time is a welcome one; the DJI Mavic Pro drone fits in a backpack. Folding down to the size of a water bottle to make it easily transportable is obviously a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Cool Material Bike Build: The Reveal

About a month ago, we had this idea of building an office bike, a motorcycle we could all use for quick trips around town. It was a pipe dream, really. We needed time and money, so we dropped the idea. Then we got to talking with Motorcycle Mechanics Institute, and…

By Matt Faisetty
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F*ck Pumpkin: 8 New Beers Actually Worth Drinking This Fall

We have a long-standing dislike for pumpkin beers. (Here's the proof.) Well, the good news for pumpkin haters is the majority of drinkers are starting to agree, as seen by a huge cut in production of the spiced mess of a drink. This free shelf space means more real estate for the beers…

By Mike Newman
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The Vuhl 05 Is Mexico’s First Supercar

Lotus, KTM and Caterham aren't the only ones making open cockpit rides you can slide into anymore. Mexico is getting in on the game with their first supercar, the Vuhl 05. The brainchild of two industrial designer brothers with a father who spent over three decades in the racing scene, Vuhl—the name…

By Cooper Fleishman
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