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Our Go-to Albums for Hosting

7 albums that set the mood so you can worry about the food and whether you have enough ice.

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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 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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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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A curated selection of our favorite gear

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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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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
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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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Chilewich Faux Bois Placemats

We don't remember much from French class outside of "oui" and "Grey Poupon" but we know that when we hear the word "faux" we usually don't get too excited. Who wants a fake anything?  Well, when the faux version is more practical and far more useful we can make an exception. This…

By Mike Newman
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olloclip For iPhone 4

If you strapped all the add-on gear for your iPhone out there onto it, it would quickly look like Optimus Prime. One minute it's a cellphone, the next it barely fits in your backpack. One slim little add-on we would highly recommend that doesn't require you doing hundreds of curls and chin-ups…

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Two Pound Box

In light of the fact that everyone else seems to be hellbent on making everything as microscopic as possible (Zoolander phone, anyone?), it's a nice change of pace to find products with a little bit of meat on them. This two pound cast iron box from Anthropologie is a perfect…

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Sennheiser Audiophile Headphones

Audiophiles are like beer snobs are like foodies. In this day and age, we're all guilty on some level of checking "all of the above" when it comes to our taste in the finer things. Even though these new Sennheiser headphones don't boast an ABV count above 20% or molecular…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Woouf Bean Bags

There's some weird desire whenever you're in a furniture design store to want to buy the fake fruit they put in the bowls on tables for sale. Maybe it's having the look of that item in your home without the functionality - something purely aesthetic. Woouf offers these kinds of…

By Mike Newman
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