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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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9 Refreshing Citrus IPAs to Drink This Season

The trend in IPA land is citrus. Now, lots of brewers pack juicy fruit notes into their beers with the right hops—amarillo and citra, among others—but that's not the only way to get that orange and grapefruit infusion, obviously. More and more breweries are going straight to the source and…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Fantastic Cities Is a Coloring Book for Adults

Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined is exactly what it sounds like: beautifully rendered and detailed line work that gives you a bird's-eye perspective of locales from New York to Paris that you get to color. The sheer scope of the places the 60-page book covers is…

By Cooper Fleishman
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#Vanlife Will Make You Want to Travel the Country in an Old Van

Watch this video and your wanderlust will get the better of you. You'll want a van—an old one you can tinker with. You'll want to explore rainy forests and meet like-minded adventurers. The Atlantic's short documentary follows Foster Huntington, the Instagram star behind the popular hashtag #vanlife, along with a few…

By Mike Newman
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Gear
The Clippa Blackfin Is a Multi-Tool You Hide in Your Hair

The man bun may be dying a slow, knotty death, but the Clippa Blackfin is about to give you good reason to continue growing out those locks. The latest in the Clippa range of mini tool clips is the Blackfin, another hair clip that hides a range of tools. Now…

By Mike Newman
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Whiskey Island, a Prohibition-Era Whiskey Hideout, Is for Sale

People went to great lengths to get their booze when Prohibition struck. Case in point: Whiskey Island. The 3.1-acre island served as an undercover spot bootleggers used to sneak whiskey into New York from Canada during the era. Now, if you have $3 million to spare, you can own a…

By Mike Newman
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