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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

This coastal Jalisco town has long attracted artists, celebrities, and discerning travelers. Here's how to do it right.

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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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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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Feeling the Burn

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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

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50
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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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I Went Down a Nixon Watch Rabbit Hole. Here Are the 4 Most Surprising Details I Found

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MWC Altimeter Wall Clock

Military Watch Company (MWC) makes watches for everyone from the military and policy forces, to antiterrorist units and, yes, for the rest of us. They've taken that sleek, minimalist, rugged style that made all their watches beautiful workhorses and turned it into this MWC Altimeter Wall Clock. The 9" clock…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Iron & Resin x Word. Notebooks Rider and Surfer Journals

We've long admired the hand-crafted, down-to-earth, usable goods that come out of the Iron & Resin shop, and now we've finally gotten the chance to work with them on these Iron & Resin x Word. Notebooks Journals. The Rider Journal and The Surfer Journal are both 48-page pocket notebooks built…

By Cooper Fleishman
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adidas Stan Smith Nuudes

Prior to seeing these new adidas Stan Smith Nuudes, we would have told you there was almost no way to improve the iconic tennis shoe. We were wrong. By removing the traditional adidas three stripe perforations and the colored accents on the heel and tongue in favor of an embossed leather patch…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The 10 Best Breweries You’ve Never Heard Of

There are over 4,000 breweries in the United States—and that number is growing. With so many outlets producing beer and such a rabid beer fanbase here in the States, it doesn't take long for the best of the best to get noticed by the aficionados. But that information doesn't always trickle…

By Mike Newman
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8 Cigar Cutters Worthy of the Finest Cubans

Lawyers, construction workers, creatives, aristocrats—from the pauper to the crown, no one is exempt from the allure of a good cigar. One thing no cigar fan should do without—whether you’re a weekend hobby smoker or a flat-out aficionado—is a good cutter. But picking the right one for your everyday carry can…

By Maxwell Barna
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