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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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Travel
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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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
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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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A curated selection of our favorite gear

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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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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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What We're Buying

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

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Zai Higo Pocket Tools

There are some things that cross our desk that are so beautiful we don't even know if we'd take them for a test drive--let alone actually use them. Most of the time that's reserved for the newest offerings from supercar manufacturers, but today it's all about Kacper Hamilton and their…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
Swatch Touch Camouflage

Well Swatch, we tip our cap to you. In our effort to find all the awesome stuff out there, somehow we missed this camo watch of yours. This is odd because we have an unhealthy obsession with the military pattern and have been fans of Swatch since we were kids.…

By Mike Newman
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Cameras
Impossible Instant Lab

No matter how much new technology comes out, some products and gadgets will always bring a smile to our face like a double bacon cheeseburger with extra bacon. Just like Atari and other toys of old, the Polaroid SX-70 is one of those items. Now, you can get those instant…

By Mike Newman
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Clothing
Best Made Co. The Standard Tee

There's something about the style of the products Best Made Co. puts out that catches our attention. It's always simple but clean and smart. Whether it's slapping their red X on a camping mug or painting a colorful design on the handle of an axe, they just seem to do…

By Mike Newman
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Gear
Approved: Pens

Many of you reading this, and the guy writing it, can’t justify spending money on what we affectionately refer to as “Rolex class pens.” Those are your Montblancs, Krones, Tibaldis, etc. Spending a couple hundred dollars on a writing instrument that, let’s be honest here, you’re probably going to lose…

By Cooper Fleishman
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