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Summer’s Best Watches Under $1,500

Summer calls for lighter materials, brighter colors, and watches that can go from the beach to dinner without missing a beat.

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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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Lifestyle
The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now
By Lanny Fuller
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Travel
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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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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Watches
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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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Hinged Wedding Rings

Even if the only piece of jewelry you wear every day is a wedding ring, there are still going to be times you have to take it off. Whether you're talking about sports, training, showering, cleaning, heavy power tool usage or just the fact that it might slip off, sometimes…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Push for Pizza’s Pizza Box Turns Into a Pipe

Push for Pizza, the app that makes bad decision pizza easier than ever, just released a concept pizza box in collaboration with Nikolas Gregory studio. Why do you care about a concept pizza box? Because after a few split perforations in the cardboard and some origami, you can turn a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The 10 Most Valuable Vinyl Records of All Time

One question we never seem to stop receiving from people is: What’s the deal with vinyl records? Why are they so cool, suddenly? What’s all the hubbub about? Well, we can’t speak for everyone, but we love vinyl because we love its sound—the soft pop of a needle working its…

By Maxwell Barna
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Food
PancakeBot Custom Pancake Printer

Look, our pancakes could look like a fucking amoeba and we'd eat them. We're not ones for style points when it comes to our short stack. That said, if we could whip up a batch that looked like iconic buildings, dinosaurs, or works of art, without having to train tirelessly…

By Mike Newman
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Fashion
Saint Unbreakable Makes the World’s Strongest Jeans

You might scoff at the $500+ price tag, but when you consider how long a pair of Saint Unbreakable's jeans should last, it might not be all that crazy. The brand's "Unbreakable Denim" is said to be 133x tougher than your standard 14oz cotton denim. That means there's less of a…

By Mike Newman
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