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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

This coastal Jalisco town has long attracted artists, celebrities, and discerning travelers. Here's how to do it right.

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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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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

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

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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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A History of Time Chronicles Iconic Timepieces

From Newman's Rolex Daytona and McQueen's Heuer Monaco, to Reagan's Rolex Datejust and Putin's Patek Calatrava, there are a lot of timepieces we consider iconic. A History of Time chronicles 49 different iconic timepieces using a digital conversion of a hand-drawn illustration. The limited edition 18" x 24" print is…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Iconic Logos Digitally Rendered in LEGO

Kamil Piatkowski is a graphic designer from Poznań, Poland, that grew up, like most of us, with LEGO. He decided to combine his two passions by digitally recreating iconic brand logos as if they were made with everyone's favorite toy brick. From FedEx to Batman, and his airness to the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Titanium Multi-Tool That’s Also a Zipper Pull

Zipper pulls are great for opening zippers, but beyond that they're pretty one dimensional. They're not gonna open a beer. They're not gonna open your packages. They're not gonna drive screws, open cans or pry up staples. Hell, they're not even going to come off of your zipper. The Fly…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Watch Robbie Maddison Ride Waves On a Dirt Bike

For two years, Robbie Maddison, a motorbike stunt rider from Australia, trained to ride his dirt bike on the waves of the Pacific. Impossible? We would have said so, until we saw  Pipe Dream. The video is the culmination of all that training, as Maddison took to the iconic waves of…

By Mike Newman
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The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray

Bill Murray is a mythical creature. His stories are traded over late night cans of PBR, each more unbelievable than the last. It's enough to forget he's also a joy to watch in films like Lost in Translation, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, and so many others. The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of…

By Mike Newman
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