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The Case for Nashville as Your Next Golf Getaway

It ain't just for bachelor parties. Music City has an elevated side with championship-caliber golf, luxury hotels, and more.

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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 Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New 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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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

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The Cold Steel War Hammer Is Inspired By 13th Century Knights

When warriors relied on close range weapons, they needed ones that could deliver a devastating blow while being agile enough not to slow down their attacks. That's the inspiration behind this Cold Steel War Hammer. Weighing just over 2 1/2 lbs, the badass tool is designed to be flung around…

By Mike Newman
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Goods: Brass Jewelry

Brass is often an overlooked metal, being not as shiny as gold and not as widely utilized as sterling silver. It’s technically an alloy made between copper and zinc, but that doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that it can give even the most mundane everyday items new life.…

By Cooper Nolan
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Tech
Mars Is a Levitating Bluetooth Speaker

If aliens appeared in a UFO blasting the latest track from Nicki Minaj, we'd be scared and more than a little confused. Well, there are no aliens, but you can still play your music off something eerily reminiscent of a flying saucer. Mars is a portable Bluetooth speaker that actually…

By Mike Newman
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Clarks Originals x Herschel Supply Desert Boots

Clarks makes the best desert boots in the world. If it wasn't so cliche, we'd drop the whole "if you looked up 'best desert boots' in the dictionary" argument because these boots are really that good. We generally prefer them in the more standard tan or brown, but we'll make…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Carbon Fiber Crash Proof Video Drone

Carbon fiber is one of the strongest materials on the planet (it's seriously stronger than steel), so it only makes sense that something that repeatedly crashes into walls, buildings, trees and everything else around would be made of the stuff. The Carbon Flyer is part personal drone, part video camera,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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