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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
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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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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

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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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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

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The Soloscope Automatic Watch

After countless years scouring the globe for truly unique timepieces, the founders of Watchismo created a watch brand of their own—Xeric. After two successful Kickstarters, Xeric is back with the Soloscope Automatic Watch, their boldest design to date. The Soloscope uses two concentric half circles and a single rotating hand…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Wasteland Weekend, The Festival Inspired by ‘Mad Max’

In case you missed it the last time we talked about it, Wasteland Weekend is an outdoor festival in the desert that allows you to live out all your Mad Max post-apocalyptic fantasies. For Mike “Sweet Lips” Orr, a life support aquarist at an aquarium in Vegas, that means outdoing…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Tech
Hover Camera

Drones have made it possible for people to record themselves without the help of a friend. But with these drones come complicated instructions, registration with the FAA, and a backpack-sized helicopter you have to carry around. Maybe it is easier to just grab a friend? Well, with Hover Camera, those problems are…

By Mike Newman
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Postcards From Google Earth

Clement Valla is a Brooklyn-based artist that plays with the way we see images produced by computers. Postcards from Google Earth is one of his projects that focuses on those strange moments that occasionally happen in Google Earth where the place you’re exploring looks more like Inception than real life.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Shinola Canfield Watches

Over the last few years, you've probably seen plenty of guys wearing a Runwell or a Rambler watch from Shinola. The first watches assembled at scale in the United States in decades became crazy popular. Now the Detroit brand is back with something new for you to slap on your wrist, and it might…

By Mike Newman
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