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The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

The swim shorts, half-zip, and retro runners that became the 20% of my summer wardrobe doing 80% of the work.

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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
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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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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Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator Synths

Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operators are one of the coolest ways to make electronic music on the go. The device that's reminiscent of an old-school calculator without a cover and exposed electronics features a 16-step sequencer, 16 patterns, parameter locks, built-in speaker, jam sync, animated LCD display and a theme for…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Shepard Fairey’s Los Angeles Home Is for Sale

Notebooks. iPhone cases. Limited Edition Hennessy. The entire OBEY brand. The Obama Hope portrait. Artist and activist Shepard Fairey has left a mark on culture as a whole that cannot be ignored. Some of the spoils from all that hard work are going to be available for one of us…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Air Bonsai Floating Plants

Bonsai culture is huge in Japan, which is what inspired Hoshinchu to create Air Bonsai. The atelier, based on the island of Kyushu in southern Japan, created a unique, DIY floating bonsai setup that kind of reminds us of a much cooler version of the levitating tops we're all familiar…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Squarespace Makes It Easy to Share Your Passion with the World

Make 2016 the year you finally turn that website idea into reality. Don’t worry, you don’t need coding classes or boring textbooks. Squarespace is the website publishing platform that allows anyone to easily create beautiful websites, blogs, portfolios, and e-commerce stores without touching a line of code. Not only that,…

By Mike Newman
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NERF’s 2016 Fall Blaster Lineup

When we talked about the NERF Blasters that were capable of launching projectiles in excess of the posted speed limit in most states we knew that foam warfare had change forever (for the better, if we're being honest). People still weren't happy with just 70MPH projectiles because the blaster wasn't…

By Cooper Fleishman
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