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The American Watchmaker Rebuilding a Lost Craft

Weiss Watch Co. is doing things a bit (or quite a lot) differently with its remarkable USA-made timepieces.

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The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
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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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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 Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

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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 Most Insane Competitive Eating Records

The Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is like the Super Bowl of competitive eating. But just like with the NFL, there are other matchups that matter that don't receive the same fanfare as the big game. Competitors battle over plates of wings, Twinkies, burgers, and all-out T.G.I. Friday's sampler platters. So, before…

By Mike Newman
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Sovaro Luxury Coolers

If you’re in the market for a cooler that will blow every other Stanley, Igloo, Coleman and Yeti out of the water, look no further than Sovaro Luxury Coolers. Lined with cork that's hand-harvested from the bark of a Portuguese Oak, the cooler uses its natural insulating properties (cork can resist…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The 9 Best New Things on Netflix This Month

July is going to be a pretty tough month for Netflixers everywhere. We’re losing some real classics: Cheech & Chong’s Up In Smoke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey (the original!), The Perfect Storm, and quite a few others. Total bummer. Luckily, there’s…

By Maxwell Barna
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Volant 3-In-1 Headphones

Volant Sound is a new audio startup out of London that is going to completely change the way you listen to music and watch videos with their new 3-in-1 Headphones. By combining the versatility of earbuds with the comfort of normal headphones and the freedom of Bluetooth, they’ve created one…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Now the BioLite BaseCamp Stove Can Cook Pizza

BioLite’s BaseCamp Stove is, like all their products, fantastic, but, like most things, it would most definitely be better if it was capable of cooking pizza—enter PizzaDome. As the name implies, the dome shaped product cooks pizza with a BioLite setup. The three piece system (food safe ceramic pizza stone,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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