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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

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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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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

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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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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

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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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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

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Wild Turkey’s New ‘Cheesy Gold Foil’ Release Is a Tribute To a Collector’s Classic

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MMT Watches

Based in Hong Kong, the boutique watch brand MMT (from "memento") started out with pocket watches that blended the unique, organic properties of wood with the more technical properties of a watch movement. Now, they're branching out to wristwatches with their "R Series." The R Series includes four different watches…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Honda Bulldog Motorcycle Concept

There's no question that, for Urbanites, two-wheeled transportation is the way to go. But sometimes you gotta get away, and then what are you gonna do? Carry your stuff under one arm and attempt to steer with the other? Honda has you covered—hopefully—with their “lovable touring partner” Bulldog Concept motorcycle.…

By Kevin McCauley
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Tech
Instagram’s New “Layout” App Makes Photo Collages

Layout is a new app that lets you combine multiple images collage style and it's from the makers of the best photo sharing app on the market—Instagram. The idea of collaging photos isn't new, and this isn't the first app to do it, but Layout improves the process significantly. For…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Robot Clock by MB&F

This robotic clock is far from the one you had as a kid with a digital display planted in Optimus Prime's plastic stomach. Melchior, from MB&F and L'Epée 1839, is a 480-component mechanical table clock that just happens to look like something out of a sci-fi film. Complete with a…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
To Pimp a Butterfly – Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar's latest album, To Pimp a Butterfly, came out a week ahead of schedule, which means our ears have had time to digest the tracks. Now that they have, consider us in the group calling it one of the best hip-hop albums of the last decade. The new King of Compton…

By Mike Newman
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