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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 I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

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7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop
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Lifestyle
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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Wharf Deck Shoe

Shoe marketing these days can be tiresome. Hyperbole is the norm, with manufacturer's touting how some crazy new technology or material in their shoe supposedly gives you the ability to run faster, jump higher, steal home, count cards, buy low, sell high, etc. For us though, we're more about simple style…

By Wylie Overstreet
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To A Tee: laFraise

laFraise is pretty much the Threadless of Europe. As their largest ongoing T-shirt design competition, the site lets the community vote for the winning design each week. The winning designs are then printed in a limited edition of 500 shirts. Offering talented designers a platform to express their creativity, we…

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James Hance Relentlessly Cheerful Art

If you're anything like us, the first think you think of when you hear the words "relentlessly cheerful art" is Tickle Me Elmo - as your eyes start to glaze over. Ironically enough, that wouldn't be that far from the truth because James Hance Relentlessly Cheerful Art is all about…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Drinks
CXXVI Sea Rope Bottle Opener

Benjamin Franklin is good for more than poppin' bottles. In fact, he was a much bigger fan of the hoppy variety of liquor. So big a fan that he once went on record saying, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." And you thought…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
Jack Spade Tarpaulin Dry Dopp Kit

Dry Bags. No, it is not a Goldbond product, or a man-powder, or anything pertaining to testicles. It's a kind of bag that keeps things dry. And not like, "oh it's a light drizzle, this waxed cotton man-purse will keep my iPad from getting a boo-boo" dry. Like, "I find…

By Wylie Overstreet
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