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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 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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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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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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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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Remarkable Drone Footage of a Kenyan Safari

Buying a drone seems like an awesome idea until you realize your day-to-day life is too boring to film. Then you go on an epic adventure and remember why you bought one. Here, Patrick Avery shares his footage from a Kenyan safari he went on last year. And since the…

By Mike Newman
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Craft Beer Brewed With Space Yeast

For a beer that's truly out of this world (we are so sorry), check out Ninkasi Brewing's latest beer: Ground Control. Last year, the brewery sent six vials of brewer's yeast into space (77.3 miles up)—this was their second attempt to do so—and brought them back to brew up this…

By Mike Newman
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Maple Bourbon Candle

With all the wonderful sweetness of a fine Tennessee whiskey, these soy wax candles were made to fill your room with a scent you won’t find at your local Yankee Candle. Each was hand-poured with clean-burning soy wax and finished with a wooden wick that will crackle like a campfire…

By Mike Newman
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Land Rover x Paul Smith Defender

If you're familiar at all with Sir Paul Smith, you know the legendary fashion designer has a thing for color. Now he's teamed up with Land Rover to make a Defender with his color palette in mind. The one-off Defender will be on display outside the Paul Smith's store in…

By Mike Newman
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Personal Flamethrower

Don't you hate having to mosey on up to a stack of wood to light your bonfire? With the XM42, the world's first commercially available handheld flamethrower, you can start the blaze from across the yard. Designed to be both awesome and affordable (the brushed steel starts at $699), the XM42 can…

By Mike Newman
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