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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
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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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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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2015 Holiday Gift Guide: Gift-able Experiences

While physical gifts are great for piling under trees and filling up stockings, gifting an experience is a far more thoughtful gesture. We’ve compiled a list of experiences that are fully gift-able and appeal to a broad set of interests. The ideas below are also meant to inspire (in case…

By Drew Haas
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Videos
Land Rover Turned London Into a City of Defenders

As previously mentioned, a very special vehicle will hit the auction floor at Bonham’s next week—the 2 millionth, and final, Land Rover Defender. To kick-off the countdown till the auction of this last Defender, Land Rover decided to... well... take over London. Unusual examples of this iconic 4x4 were found…

By Kevin McCauley
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How To Make Craft IPA Pickles

It’s a cold, hard truth: Men like sandwiches. Reubens, specials, or even hot-dogs. Basically, meat between bread. And very few things complete a sandwich like a pickle. Problem is, we’ve kinda grown tired of the mass-produced pickles taking up residence on supermarket shelves for months on end. Artisanal pickles are fine,…

By Kevin McCauley
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Smack-Talking ‘Pulp Fiction’ Action Figures

"Mmmmmmmm! This is a tasty burger!" "English, mother f*#ker, do you speak it?" "Don't f'ing Jimmie me, Jules!" "Of all the fucking things she could fucking forget, she forgets my father's watch!" All these phrases, and more, can be heard coming out of one of four new explicit Pulp Fiction…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Hamilton Beach Breakfast Burrito Maker

Hamilton Beach, maker of all kinds of awesome, ridiculous kitchen gadgets, has a new gadget that will take your breakfast or brunch game to a whole new level. The Breakfast Burrito Maker does exactly what you’d imagine—makes everyone's favorite, portable Tex Mex creation—but it makes it significantly easier than doing…

By Cooper Fleishman
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