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

The smartest summer wardrobes aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones where every piece works with every other piece.

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The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
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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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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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Our 10 Favorite Drives in the USA

America is filled with amazing drives. Unfortunately, most road trips are filled with sleep-inducing highways and interstates. It's time for a different road trip. There may not be rest stops packed with fast food, but there will certainly be memories that will last a lifetime. These are our favorite drives in the USA.…

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The USB Adaptor That Blends Into Your MacBook

Apple's new MacBook is a glorious piece of technology that's better than its predecessor in just about every way. They reworked batteries, backlights, logic boards and screens to make it, quite possibly, the best laptop on the market. They even completely re-imagined how you connect to the MacBook by integrating…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
Great George Watches

In a sea of circles, Great George watches uses a square design and Bauhaus inspiration to create something that is minimal and timeless. Using stainless steel and 100% leather to create the cases and straps, Great George delivers on the history of their "Great George" namesake location in downtown Manhattan. Whether…

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Topographic Ski and Snowboard Mountain Maps

A few years ago, we introduced you to Muir Way, a company that was producing printed maps of national parks ranging from Arcadia to Zion. Now they're back with a new series of maps that showcase ski and snowboard mountains based off the topographic quadrants made by the USGS. The…

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Entertainment
Prison Ramen: Recipes and Stories from Behind Bars

We've always been of the opinion that you could make friends over a bowl of ramen, but the experience was definitely not as profound as the one Gustavo "Goose" Alvarez had while he was an inmate at Chino. During the race riots, Alvarez and his crew fed ramen to their…

By Cooper Fleishman
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