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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 Case for Nashville as Your Next Golf Getaway
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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 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 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.

The Cool Shop
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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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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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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide

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Labely Custom Beer Labels

A beer label is a good indicator of whether or not a beer is being sipped a bit too casually. If it comes off clean when you put your fingernail into it, quit nursing and cash it. While you'll probably find more labels on the floor of a bar than folks…

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GIVEAWAY: 3 Pairs of Phiaton PS 20 BT Bluetooth Earphones (CLOSED)

All headphones are not created equal. We know, we know, you just got that sweet pair of free headphones from that booth at *insert any social gathering here*, but there's a problem with them that the cute girl forgot to mention. They suck. At the end of the day, yeah,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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I’m Watch

Unless you're some reincarnation of Andre the Giant or hit the gym solely for forearm exercises, we're going to assume strapping your iPhone or Android device to your wrist would look ridiculous. That being said, having all those features right on your arm would one-up Dick Tracy. If you're as addicted to…

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Sony SA-NS500 HomeShare Portable Speaker

At this point in time, it's harder to get us interested in another speaker/dock/super-universal-totally-versatile-sound-system than it is to get us to a dry wedding. Sony actually piqued our interest with the new HomeShare Portable Speaker for more than one reason. First, it's not ugly. It's AirPlay enabled (No iDevice? Just…

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UP by Jawbone

We flip through issues of Outside magazine while planning our next rock climbing expedition but until we gear up on the trip, most of our time is spent staring at PDF files and random websites. So, as much as we'd like to trick ourselves into thinking we're active beings with…

By Mike Newman
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