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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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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.

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The Cool Shop
What We're Buying
The Cool Shop

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

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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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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
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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 Big Book of Spy Stuff

If you're reading this, which obviously you are, chances are you are not an 8-year-old boy. If you are an 8-year-old boy, kudos for being such a little trendsetter and, remember, don't scroll through daddy's website history. For everyone else, yes, The Big Book of Spy Stuff is targeted at a…

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Blitz WWII Bomb Lamp

There are products that need a little help in the description department and there are products that speak for themselves. Then there's the Blitz WWII Bomb Lamp. Made from a recycled WWII MK23 Naval practice bomb, cloth-wrapped cord and a vintage plug, the Blitz lamp would give Ron Popeil a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Camo Watch Strap

Sooner or later, everything cool going on in men's fashion trickles down to J. Crew. Timex watches with interchangeable straps? J. Crew. Brown boots with red shoe laces? J. Crew. Slim cut suit at a price point that doesn't require a power broker salary? Also at J. Crew. Anything involving…

By Cooper Fleishman
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SeaVees 09/65 Bayside Moc Chukka

The year is September 1965. The place is the San Francisco Examiner. The event is the birth of the hippie movement. While we're all for the Haight-Ashbury district of San Fran being called a "hip hangout" for beatniks, but we find it hard to believe that a bi-line in the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Wörther Pencils

If anyone was going to redesign the way we think about writing instruments, it was going to be the Germans. Pencils don't need to be a simple tube of wood filled with "lead" and capped with an ugly pink eraser that will just inevitably break off. Based on what Gerhard…

By Cooper Fleishman
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