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

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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 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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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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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…

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MINUS-8 Zone 2 and Square Chrono Watches

Described as the "product of a futurist, architectural mindset," MINUS-8 watches have impressed us ever since we set eyes on their Layer Watch. They're back with two new models—Zone 2 and Square Chrono—that are even more attractive than their predecessor. Zone 2 is a classically styled field watch with clear…

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