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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

The smartest summer wardrobes aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones where every piece works with every other piece.

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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 Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

The smartest summer wardrobes aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones where every piece works with every other piece.

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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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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival
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Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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Steve McQueen: The Actor and His Films

The test to determine whether any celebrity has reached the iconic level is whether or not you can put a coffee table book about them on display without looking like a complete weirdo. For example, Ryan Gosling is a good actor, but toss a hardcover of his work out during…

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To A Tee: Superbowl XLVI

This is our third To A Tee Superbowl edition, so you can imagine that we're pretty happy we didn't start the feature back in 2008. If we had, this would be the same damn post. Way to keep things interesting, NFL. Superbowl XLVI will host yet another showdown between Big…

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We've gotten away with Hallmark carefully picking and choosing our words for us on special occasions for what feels like forever, but there's some things even a Hallmark card can't say. Sometimes you just want that special someone in your life to know that even though you sometimes want to…

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Boardwalk Empire Visual Effects Breakdown

We've seen huge blue aliens and giant crashing ships and storms that rival anything occurring naturally created in near perfect detail through the use of "computer graphics." There was a time when it was easy to pick out what was real and what was digital, but the technology has become…

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LomoKino Smart Phone Holder

We've yet to run across anyone who hasn't in someway upgraded their iPhone camera. Whether it's through using an app like Instagram, Camera+ or Socialcam or through tossing some bulky addition onto the exterior, we don't know anyone who just left it as is. If you happen to be a fan of…

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