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5 Host Gifts That Will Get You Invited Back

5 Host Gifts That Will Get You Invited Back

Hosting is a laborious and often thankless task. Be a better house guest with one of these gifts that go beyond the cliché bottle of wine.

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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 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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A curated selection of our favorite gear

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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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PF Flyers Drake

Chukkas. No, they're not some sort of medieval throwing weapon (though we wouldn't have a problem with that) or an extra from Lord of the Rings (we'd probably have a problem with this). They're actually shoes (in some cases boots) originally popular during the 40s and 50s. They got their…

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Timbuk2 Stuffle Duffel

You've got a hot "workout" planned after work and you have no intentions of making it back to your place before you pass out at your desk tomorrow morning. You could attempt to cram everything into a messenger bag but the end result of that is Chris Farley in Tommy…

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Fashion
Nixon The Gunship Collection

Nixon watches. You know them; you love them. Now there's more. The Gunship Collection consists of The Banks, The Player, The Sentry, and the 51-30 Chrono - all decked out with a unique gunmetal finish and red targeting matrices... err hands. Supposedly this finish is designed for wear and tear…

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Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art

We have a deep appreciation for uncommissioned urban art, which is an impressive way of saying "graffiti". This appreciation may have started with using Mr. Sketch scented markers to doodle on the insides of our 3rd grade textbooks, or maybe it was the standard dicks-on-bathroom-walls motif in our high school…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Owen Freeman’s Illustrations

Owen Freeman's illustrations are the kind of art that's more pleasing to look at than the images that inspired them. He uses rich, saturated colors and digital painting over stark ink sketches create a surreal depiction of recognizable people and places. They're the kind of art you end up staring…

By Wylie Overstreet
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