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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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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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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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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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HacBook Elite Is an HP That Runs Mac OS X

We love our MacBooks as much as the next guy or gal, but they're nowhere near as cheap as a "hackintosh" alternative. The HacBook Elite runs OS X for 1/3 the cost of a Mac out of the box. The package and guts of the HacBook Elite are a refurbished…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Cool Material Bike Build: The Project and the Plan

A vintage motorcycle is best enjoyed with a pair of grease-stained hands on the bars. Actually putting in the work to get an old bike up and running is far more rewarding than dropping an exorbitant amount of cash on one spiffed up for you. It’s about the pride that…

By Matt Faisetty
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You Can Get Paid to Travel and Drink Gin

Many internships involve fetching coffee and performing tasks those higher up on food chain find beneath them. Basically, most internships suck. An internship with ILoveGin, a new monthly gin and tonic delivery service, does not. They're currently looking for an intern—or, "gintern," as they refer to it—to travel the UK and…

By Mike Newman
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Classic Video Games You Can Now Play on Your Phone

Mobile gaming is going through a legitimate renaissance period right now. Over the last couple years, games like Candy Crush Saga, FarmVille, Words With Friends, Flappy Bird, and now Pokemon Go, have completely revolutionized the way we take our lunch breaks, wait for our Ubers, visit the DMV, power Mobile…

By Maxwell Barna
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La Colombe Triple Draft Latte

When La Colombe released their Draft Latte in cans earlier this year, it sold out before most caffeine fiends could get their hands on it. Now those with a serious need for a morning jolt need to start hunting again. La Colombe has now released their Triple Draft Latte in…

By Mike Newman
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