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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

Williamsburg pairs championship courses with centuries of American history, making for one memorable long weekend.

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The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
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The Rise of Prediction Culture
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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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What We're Buying
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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Lifestyle
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

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle
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The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle

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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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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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

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The Best Boutique Hotels You Can Actually Afford to Stay In

Typically, design and price move in tandem. The best designed cars, electronics, and furniture are the most expensive.  Fortunately for jetsetters, hotels can buck this trend. Over the last decade, hotels have been emphasizing design, atmosphere and food. Expect to find furniture you’ll want to take home, award-winning food, and…

By Drew Haas
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Fashion
Aether’s Ion Jacket Is a Modern Take on the Classic Bomber

The bomber's been around in one form or another since the 1920's thanks to its mix of style and practicality. In that spirit, Aether's created the Ion Jacket. The distinct look of the bomber's definitely present, but they've done a bit of updating. The 800-fill goose down promises to keep…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, According to ‘Rolling Stone’

How do you compare Seinfeld to Game of Thrones? Is The Wire better than The Sopranos? The thought of even trying to compile a list of the 100 greatest shows of all time makes our heads hurt. Rolling Stone, however, decided to take a stab at such a grand undertaking. The mag sent ballots out…

By Mike Newman
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Tech
Bump Is a Phone Charger and a Battery

With all the Instagramming, Facebooking, e-mailing, Tweeting, etc., most of us aren't more than a few feet from a charger or a battery pack at all times, but you can simplify that process because Bump is a charger and a battery. Available in four different colors (black, blue, magenta, red),…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
Spectacles are Sunglasses That Record Snapchat Videos

Snapchat is branching out from just being a software developer by re-branding with parent company Snap, Inc. (it's all a big Google goes Alphabet, honestly) and releasing these new glasses. Spectacles record Snapchat videos with a simple tap near the hinges on the arms of the glasses. When you're recording…

By Cooper Fleishman
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