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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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Travel
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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Sports
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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
Lifestyle

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

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Move Slightly Bracelets

If you're looking for a quality bracelet, you've probably spent way too long on the Internet ultimately trying to decide between something made out of leather or paracord. It could have had a nautical bent, or maybe it was something raw and gritty. Move Slightly has a whole line of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Hip Hop Playing Cards

You go out and buy a deck of stylish cards for your next poker game and you'll probably realize the only thing really different about them from a standard set of Bicycles are the face cards. That's half-assing it. These Hip Hop Playing Cards are all (as in every card…

By Mike Newman
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Features
10 Other Things We’d Be Willing To Do For Free

A few weeks ago, BMW flew us out to Monterey, California to test drive some of their new top of the line 2013 models. (If you didn’t get a chance, you can read about it and see the pics here.) Now here’s the thing, this was an experience we would…

By Mike Newman
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Computers
Kindle Paperwhite

As much as we love bending pages and cracking the spine on a new paperback, it's getting harder and harder to defend the physical book. With the Kindle Paperwhite, it's basically impossible. The latest reader from Amazon improves on the original Kindle in a whole slew of ways. First, and…

By Mike Newman
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Lasonic Bluetooth Boombox

We miss ghetto blasters. Even if we managed to dig one of them up, we wouldn't have any cassette tapes to put in the damn thing anyway. If you've ever dreamed about walking down the street blasting tunes off your shoulder again, or maybe pulling a Cusack and getting vertical…

By Cooper Fleishman
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