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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

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The Case for Nashville as Your Next Golf Getaway
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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy
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What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

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5 Todd Snyder Sale Picks to Snag Before Summer’s Over

Consider this your excuse to squeeze a little more out of summer.

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7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop
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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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The Cool Shop

What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

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What We're Buying
5 Todd Snyder Sale Picks to Snag Before Summer’s Over

Consider this your excuse to squeeze a little more out of summer.

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What We're Buying
7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop

For the beach, the lake, the trail, and wherever you like disappearing to on summer weekends.

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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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A curated selection of our favorite gear

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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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What We're Buying

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
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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Turn a Washing Machine Drum Into a Fire Pit

As the weather starts to turn, it's time to emerge from your home-based hibernation and experience the outdoors again. Nothing beats cracking a beer outside with just the heat from a fire on a cool night. Of course, buying a fire pit will easily run you $100+ depending on its…

By Mike Newman
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Articles
Inside Hickoree’s Floor Two: The Best Menswear Shop in Brooklyn

The issue with trying to be cool is, the act of doing so is inherently uncool from the start. This makes the whole process null and void. It's a problem that plagues plenty of menswear shops you've probably stepped foot in. There's a sense they're trying too hard. True coolness…

By Mike Newman
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Lifestyle
Heritage: Joe Sadler

This is a 1938 Gibson Mastertone passed down from my father last year with a case that has been covered in Bill Monroe Bluegrass stickers and tickets since the mid 70's. My mother actually went into labor with me while they were at the show in 1979. I used to…

By Cool Material Guest
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Accessories
Customize Ember Equipment Backpacks To Fit Your Needs

Finding one backpack that fits all your needs is damn near impossible. What happens with the camera, or the clothes, or the laptop when you don't want to carry them all the time? What if you need a hard drive for all your photos when you're traveling, but you don't…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Pono Music Introduces Righteous Hi-Res Music System

There hasn't been a legitimate competitor to an Apple music player for quite some time, but by the time you read this the Pono Music system will probably have eclipsed the million dollar mark on Kickstarter. The first six minutes of the video is a who's who of famous musicians,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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