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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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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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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 Visual History of Architecture Told With LEGO

Between the Neoclassical period, Postmodernism and the architect's names you're familiar with, it can be difficult keeping everything straight when it comes to the buildings around you. LEGO, on the other hand, can be as simple as snapping some bricks together to see if your fingers can realize your vision.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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5 Brands From the Capsule Menswear Show You Should Know

The latest incarnation of Capsule, the men's apparel and accessories show that started in 2007, hit the Big Apple this past week, and as always, brought with it a slew of new trends and labels. We dug through all of them to find a few we think are worth your attention.…

By Mike Newman
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Own the Triumph Scrambler From Jurassic World

Sure, we saw Jurassic World, great piece of work. We especially dug the scene where Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) lead a charging pack of deadly velociraptors in the hunt for the Indominus Rex—although the idea that the raptors wouldn't eat Pratt on the way seems flimsy at best. Maybe the real alpha…

By Kevin McCauley
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Nixon Made a Ranger Watch With Poler

It's no secret that we're almost always on board with a new product from the geniuses at Poler. We love their cast iron skillet and dutch oven, but their collabs are our favorites. They made a ninja suit with Airblaster. They made camo sneakers with Nike. And now they've made…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Watches of Men’s Fashion Week in New York

You need only look at the lack of nude wrists these days to know watches are having a moment. And while watch collecting has always been a wealthy man's game, owning one nice timepiece has been a trend adopted by the stylish masses. We took to the first-ever New York…

By Mike Newman
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