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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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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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Customized LEGO Minifig Portraits of You

It’s probably been a long time since you set foot in a portrait studio, but things like that happen when you have photographer friends and a camera in your pocket. What you probably can’t do is get a custom LEGO mini fig portrait from anywhere other than Two Three Bricks.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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We Tried the REAL Burger King Black Burger

That Halloween Whopper Burger King is currently peddling, with its A.1. steak sauce-infused black bun, is actually a thinly-veiled slap in America's face. BK knew U.S. Twitter feeds blew up when the company released the original Kuro ("Black") burger in Japan last year, but they didn't think our taste buds were ready for…

By Mike Newman
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The Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s New HBO Drama, ‘Vinyl’

If you thought The Wolf of Wall Street was Scorsese's last drug-fueled epic, perhaps you should flip on HBO this coming January. Vinyl, from Scorsese, Terence Winter and Mick Jagger, is going to drop you right into the heart of the New York music scene of the 70s. And yes, there will be…

By Mike Newman
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Fashion
Nomad Mòltair Carbon Black Watch

Nomad, a Scottish watch brand, uses a global network of collaborators to take the clean lines and sensibilities of Nomad and imbue all of their releases with the nuances of the designer’s individual environment. The inaugural release, Mòltair Carbon, pairs a 41mm PVD coated 316L stainless case that houses a Japanese…

By Cooper Fleishman
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What You Never Knew About Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’

Edward Hopper, the American realist painter of the early to mid-1900s, had a way of showcasing loneliness in his carefully created works that quickly put viewers in a somber mood. And of his numerous paintings, none is better-known than Nighthawks, his 1942 work depicting a diner late at night. Though it's by…

By Mike Newman
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