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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
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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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
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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How to Serve Great Cocktails Without Missing Your Own Party

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Nikon Lens USB Speaker

We’re no strangers to creative speakers or cool photography inspired gear, so obviously a speaker that looks like a Nikon Lens isn’t going to fly under our radar. (Even if it is on eBay.) At first glance the Nikon Lens USB Speaker really looks just like a Nikon lens, until…

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Drinks
Bowser Beer

We've all been there, it's late in the night, you and your buddies are sitting around the card table having had a few too many when one of you gets the brilliant idea to pour the wounded soldiers into Fido's bowl. Luckily there's one of you level-headed enough to realize this…

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Entertainment
Vintage Swiss Army Flashlight

There aren’t many things made today that are higher in quality than their original counterparts from years, if not decades ago. That brand new LED powered flashlight you carry around everywhere for emergencies is bright, effective and energy efficient, but will it be around in a decade? Ok, probably, but…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Contests & Give-Aways
GIVEAWAY: 10 Copies – The History of the World According to Facebook (CLOSED)

It's hard to go a few hours—let alone a lifetime—without Facebook. Unfortunately, that terrible fate is something Queen Elizabeth, Honest Abe and Henry Ford had to suffer through. We can only imagine what it was like for them, but Wylie Overstreet put fingers to keys and channeled history, as told…

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Luxeplates Stainless Steel iPhone Backplates

When you spend more than $100 on anything, some part of you always wants to show it off. If the expenditure in question happens to be a fancy new cellphone capable of talking back to you, you're going to want to show it off even more. The thing about iPhones…

By Cooper Fleishman
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