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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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Transportation
Stealth Bomber Electric Bikes Reach up to 50mph

The Stealth B-52 Bomber hybrid bike is unlike anything we've ever seen before. Technically, it's a bicycle, so the standard rules of pedaling will apply to a fair bit of your shorter jaunts around town. But the B-52 is so much more than a traditional bicycle because the motocross-inspired frame…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gear
The Spherical Treehouse You Can Hang Anywhere

The Cocoon Tree is a spherical structure assembled from pieces of aluminum and waterproof canvas that you can hang just about anywhere using a combination of cords for suspension and lateral stability. It's essentially a giant ball tent that you can hang from nature's canopy to enjoy the environment around…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
The Redux COURG Watch Blends Pilot and Diver

After spending years searching for the perfect vintage pilot watch but only coming up with options that were too big, too shiny, too fragile or too branded, the team behind Redux Watch decided to make their own. The Redux COURG (pronounced "courage," like the way point outside Washington, D.C.) watch…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Giveaway: Win $500 to the Cool Material Shop [Closed]

Everyone knows you can wait in line freezing your butt off for hours on Black Friday in order to get a passable TV or a decent laptop for a couple hundred bucks, but most of those deals aren’t worth your time. We created the Cool Material Steals section so you…

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Food
Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Barrel Proof Whiskey

For those who love the burn of cask strength whiskey, Jack Daniel’s has a new bottle for your home bar. The first-ever barrel strength offering in JD’s Single Barrel series, Barrel Proof is the rawest expression of what the Tennessee Whiskey maker is all about. Every barrel will offer something…

By Mike Newman
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