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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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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
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Lifestyle
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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Watches
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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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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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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What We're Buying

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

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Sports
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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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What We're Buying

The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

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Lifestyle
Lifestyle

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

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Gear
Anchor Pocket Knife

We don’t know what it is about anchors that we dig so much, all we know is they happen to be awesome. Even if you aren’t sailing the seven seas or you get a bit of the pukes on a Carnival cruise, we’re guessing you agree. You know what’s also…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Hi-Fi Posters

Our audio equipment these days looks like somebody took the gun from "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" to it. Having a killer setup back in the day meant decking a room out with gear that left space for little else. While you crank some tunes through Bluetooth, reminisce about the equipment of…

By Mike Newman
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Accessories
Lighter Cufflinks

If the best things in life come in small packages, you're going to be hard pressed to find anything that tops these vintage-style lighter cufflinks. Using a design popular decades ago (think Zippo except the wheel spins sideways), these unassuming cufflinks (they're less than an inch in size) make sure…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
ABChairs

The furniture you have in your home says something. While normally it's something like, "I have fine and expensive taste" or "Ikea had a blowout sale," with ABChairs, now it can literally say something. The series of 26 (obviously) typographic chairs lets you spell out a message the next time…

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Drinks
Shot Flask

Portable drinking apparatus + Boy Scout/camping style collapsible cup in 2oz shot size = Mobile drinking perfection. The Shot Flask is an 8oz stainless steel flask with black leather wrapping that has a collapsible shot glass built in. That about sums it up. We're going to continue the regularly scheduled…

By Cooper Fleishman
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