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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 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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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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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 Bushmills” by Shwood

What do sunglasses, Irish Whiskey and cool stores have in common? The answer isn't nothing, it's "The Bushmills." Shwood teamed up with Boston boutique Bodega and the fine folks at Bushmills to create a limited run of sunglasses made out of the oak used to hold Bushmills. Sunglasses made (and…

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Dead On Annihilator Superhammer

We don't often turn to Think Geek when we're looking to purchase a serious product. Yeah, they're first on our list for bacon-flavored gumballs and new ways to inject ourselves with caffeine, but for a tool that may come in more handy than anything else in our toolbox, they're not usually…

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Kevlar Smokejumper Belt

If there are guys out there relying on these Kevlar straps to keep them safe while descending near raging forest fires, we think they'll do the job keeping up our pants. Seeing as how each of these Kevlar Smokejumper Belts from Best Made are insanely durable and resistant to abrasions,…

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Toy Boarders

Plastic army men are a childhood staple, like GI Joes, Transformers, and those weird make your own edible bug kits. They were a lot of fun to blow up, melt, and stick in the VCR, but they weren’t the most relatable toys for all of us. We’d much rather set…

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Gear
Third Rock Fire Pit

For the most part fire pits aren’t exactly setting the world on fire in terms of design—with the exception of the Third Rock Fire Pit, which does so quite literally. Designed by functional steel artist Rick Wittrig, the pit represents the burning inner core of our planet which evokes the…

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