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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

These 5 lighters turn a disposable necessity into a piece of EDC you’ll actually want to carry.

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The Case for Nashville as Your Next Golf Getaway
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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture
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Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in July 2026.

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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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We Found the Good Stuff

Our latest favorites for your closet, home, wrist, and everywhere else.

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Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in July 2026.

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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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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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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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Learn To Cook Like Abraham Lincoln

A great cookbook doesn't just present recipes. Through stories, it brings food to life and inspires you to cook them. "Abraham Lincoln in the Kitchen" succeeds at both entertaining and educating. Rae Katherine Eighmey dug deep into Lincoln's cooking - even studying grocery bills - to present the food the president…

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Food
Make Bread That Tastes Like Buffalo Wings

Buffalovin' bread mix combines two of our favorite things to eat: Delicious buffalo wings and sweet, sweet carbs. The mix allows you to produce a truly unique loaf of bread that is both spicy like a good platter of wings and a little sweet to boot. The all-natural mix from…

By Mike Newman
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100 Beards Is Full Of Awesome Facial Hair

We can't pinpoint exactly when beards came back into style, but when they did, they did so with a vengeance. "100 Beards: Edition Two" from Jonathan Daniel Pryce is a celebration of the now ubiquitous facial sweater. The 250-page book is full of photographs of guys with jealousy-inducing beards along…

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Clothing
Converse Debuts The Inaugural Jack Purcell Collection

We can safely say that Jack Purcell is the only famous badminton player we've ever heard of. That's partly because he also happened to design an iconic shoe we're more than familiar with and partly because we can't watch a sport that uses the term "shuttlecock" without giggling like school…

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Pacemaker Lets You Mix Tracks On Spotify

Spotify has completely changed the way we listen to music. The ability to have free access (at least on our desktop) to almost any track imaginable is, simply, revolutionary. Pacemaker is the first DJ app that allows you to mess around with all those songs in that massive Spotify library.…

By Mike Newman
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