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5 Host Gifts That Will Get You Invited Back

5 Host Gifts That Will Get You Invited Back

Hosting is a laborious and often thankless task. Be a better house guest with one of these gifts that go beyond the cliché bottle of wine.

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The Case for Nashville as Your Next Golf Getaway
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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy
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The $1,200 Sneaker Giveaway ​

Win a pair of handcrafted Crown Northampton Yardley GAT sneakers, a matching cardholder, and a handmade shoe tree.

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What We're Buying
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What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

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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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The $1,200 Sneaker Giveaway ​

Win a pair of handcrafted Crown Northampton Yardley GAT sneakers, a matching cardholder, and a handmade shoe tree.

The Cool Shop
The Cool Shop
What We're Buying
The Cool Shop

What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

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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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Travel
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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
Sports

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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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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Fashion
Void Watches V03A

Void Watches have always had an industrial, almost Apple-esque, elegance. Minimalism is the name of the game when it comes to Void, and that’s fine because your watch doesn’t really need Angry Birds, a calculator or apps. It needs to tell you the time and look good doing it. The…

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Transportation
VW Beetle Fender Edition

The Volkswagen Beetle was always a car that, until 2012, we thought we’d be incapable of owning. It’s too curvy, it has a spot for flowers and it’s just generally girly. Those are all qualities we like in our women, but not in our cars. Then, in 2012 it got…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audio
Sounder Stand

We have a love/hate relationship with purchasing wooden amplifiers. We love how we can ditch wires and electricity and have a perfect product in one portable piece of wood, but we hate the feeling that we could have built the damn thing ourselves. The thing is, we've got DIY projects lined up…

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Food
Traditional Metal Lunchbox

If you brown bag it everyday and don't work on a construction site, we're guessing your lunch holster is pretty lame. It's not your fault, there's just not a lot of ways to appear like an adult when you've got a literal brown bag or a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…

By Mike Newman
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Goods
Goods: The Perfect Trunk

There are certain things every man should have in his car. A pair of shades, a bunch of quarters and a beautiful copilot to name just a few. That being said, some of those necessities can easily be kept in your car’s trunk (we’d strongly advise against the third). If…

By Mike Newman
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