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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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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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Microsoft’s Surface Book Is the Most Exciting Laptop in Years

As the war between laptops and tablets rages on, we may finally have a glimpse at how the whole thing will end, and it comes from Microsoft. The Microsoft Surface Book, simply put, is the best of both worlds and then some. At its most basic, it's a powerful, full…

By Mike Newman
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Pen Type-B

Pen Type-A by Brooklyn design firm cw&t was one of the first pens we ever backed on Kickstarter, and it remains one of our favorites to this day. It took them four years of designing, testing and prototypes, but cw&t is finally back with a sequel to the pen that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The SalvageWon Eliminator V2 was Built From Mazda Miata Parts

Have you ever seen a film where an evil robot gets completely mangled but comes back, still functional, in a new form? Like, you know it's the same villain, but it looks totally different. That's the Eliminator V2, which, for the most part, is a Mazda Miata. From the team…

By Mike Newman
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The Most Instagrammed Location In Every State

Instagram is a treasure trove of inspiration. See a talented photographer post a pic of a lush, mountain-dotted landscape, and you might be driven to go find a similar spot near you. It happens a lot. Busbud, the travel site that helps readers book bus tickets, dug through all those…

By Mike Newman
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The Light L16 Is 16 Cameras in One

To carry 16 cameras around with you, you'd need a backpack the size of a piece of checked luggage—or you'd need the new Light L16. The revolutionary camera actually packs 16 individual cameras within it. It's the world's first multi-aperture computational camera. When you take a photo, 10 of those cameras…

By Mike Newman
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