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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

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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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Featured Stories

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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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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.

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

Must-Reads

Our team’s top picks

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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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What We're Buying

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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
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 MAD Fold-In Collection: 1964-2010

The arrival of MAD magazine in the mail meant two things to us - "Spy vs. Spy" and the fold-in picture that was always at the end. While "Spy vs. Spy" had its moments (who has a bomb under their hat this time?) the fold-in was what we wanted to get…

By Mike Newman
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Cool Material Test Drives Scion iQ

The first time I saw a Scion cruising down the road about 5 or 6 years ago, I thought “What is that?” It didn’t really impress me or impact me much at all, but I remembered the name Scion and I began to see the Toyota owned company grow. Unbeknownst…

By Kevin Jacobsen
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Anthropologie Eiko Cabinet

We can't remember exactly when it happened (probably somewhere around the time jobs started getting measured in tens of thousands of dollars instead of per hour), but we began to pay more attention to some of life's finer things: a quality scotch or a nice vino, shoes designed specifically for…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Paper Wallets – Designer Series

Solid color wallets are great if you’re working with a tough material like leather. If you’re working with something like the almost indestructible, flexible, resistant-to-damn-near-everything material Tyvek, you can get way more creative. What starts as a regular Paper Wallet is transformed into something artistically excellent by some of the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Banana Republic Mad Men Collection

There are plenty of reasons other than Christina Hendricks to watch Mad Men. The dramatic storytelling, fantastic costumes and day drinking are just a few of the endearing qualities of the show that's about so much more than the stereotypically misogynistic escapades of Don Draper. Dapper isn't a word that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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