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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

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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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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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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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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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The Re-Ply Chair

Hacking materials to convert them to a purpose other than what they were designed for is really nothing new. Ball jars converted to lights or planters. Galvanized gas pipe converted to shelving units or shoe racks. The list goes on. Very rarely though do they get converted to such an…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gear
SMOcan Portable Smoking System

This is a tobacco product. This is not to be used for anything other than the inhalation and storage of tobacco-related paraphernalia. Wink, wink. The SMOcan portable smoking system is the Swiss Army knife of paraphernalia. It grinds (twice), it stores a lighter and a pipe and a poking stick,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
TGT Wallet

If bulky wallets are the bane of your existence, first of all that's really weird and somewhat depressing, and second, check out your new favorite money and card holster. The TGT or "Tight" Wallet is the simplest and smallest cash carrier we've come across. Based off the mindset that no item…

By Mike Newman
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Computers
Apple iPad Mini

For serious portability, the iPad is not ideal. Sure, if you have one, you're probably not running out for an iPad Mini, but if you're in the group of consumers who wanted a smaller and more affordable app machine, here you go. Yes, there are going to be critics who…

By Mike Newman
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Computers
Balisong 2GB USB Drive

You're probably reading this and thinking to yourself, "what the hell is a balisong? That's obviously a butterfly knife." If you weren't, you're way more knowledgable about this stuff than we are because that's exactly what we were thinking. But we digress. This Balisong is the first that's legal in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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