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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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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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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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The best deals and offers on the web

Editors' Picks

A curated selection of our favorite gear

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Our team’s top picks

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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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What We're Buying
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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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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10 Brilliant Rube Goldberg Machines

We normally like to keep things simple and do things the easy way, but we’re completely fascinated by Rube Goldberg machines. They require a level of skill and patience we doubt we’ll ever posses and they’re the ultimate expression of doing something just because you can. (Plus, they’re really fun…

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Drinks
Rival Bros Coffee

We can't remember the last time we turned on the Food Network or Travel Channel and didn't see something about a show involving cupcakes or food trucks. (Yes, we're man enough to admit we occasionally enjoy both of those channels for the culinary contributions to our nightly meals.) They're everywhere.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
Nevermore Body Company

If a lady were to open up your medicine cabinet, the last thing you'd want falling out of there are ultra feminine products like lavender scented facial scrubs and cucumber and fresh mist eye cream (or wart remover, that would suck too). If that's what you've got in there now,…

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Phones
Rich Neeley Designs iPhone Book Docks

Do you long for a time when books actually had pages you had to turn, could be read in the sun and didn't require a power source? Yeah, so do we. Digesting the classics digitally is convenient, but it's not anywhere near as satisfying as the tactile and sensory experience…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Avid Studio for iPad

When Apple first rolled out the iPad, we immediately knew we'd be shelling out the extra cash for the 64 gig model. Sure, there was a very good chance that was far more storage than we'd need, but we were quite aware we'd be cramming that thing with a ton of…

By Mike Newman
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