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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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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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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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The Bar Blade

You'll find a flat metal bottle opener in the back pocket of bartenders all over the world—The Bar Blade is the upgraded version of that. By combining a laser cut metal bottle opener with hand-sewn Horween leather, The Bar Blade is equal parts modern technology and vintage craftsmanship. Whether you're…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
The Chip So Hot It’s Sold in a One Pack

There are plenty of hot chips out there that will question anyone's ability to tolerate the hot and spicy, but this is the chip so hot it's sold in a one pack. Made with the hottest chile pepper on the planet—the "Carolina Reaper"—the Paqui Carolina Reaper chip is so hot…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Potato Chips Prisoners Love are Now Available to the Public

In case you're not familiar with The Whole Shabang snacks, they're a line of super-seasoned chips, crunchies, popcorn and peanuts that, up until now, were only available through the prison commissary. Yes, you read that correctly. If you wanted the incredibly delicious, salty snacks that have been described "like an…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
Nike’s Self-Lacing Sneakers Go on Sale November 28

Nike has announced that the Hyperadapt 1.0, the first consumer self-lacing sneaker, will go on sale November 28. A bit more stylish than the sneakers Marty McFly tossed on his feet in Back to the Future, the Hyperadapt 1.0 features a "lace engine" hidden in the sole that helps the laces…

By Mike Newman
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The 10 Pairs of Boots You Should Consider This Fall

The temperatures may still be hovering around t-shirt and shorts levels for most of us, but any minute now all sorts of cool weather gear will be dropping into stores and online all across the country. Call it premature or call it good old fashioned forward planning, starting to think…

By Matthew Pike
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