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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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What We're Buying
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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Editors' Picks

A curated selection of our favorite gear

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Travel
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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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Sports
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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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Lifestyle
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Wild Turkey’s New ‘Cheesy Gold Foil’ Release Is a Tribute To a Collector’s Classic

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Audio
AIAIAI’S Swirl Earphones

After winning the award for Bizarre Brand Name that Sounds Like a Battle Cry, audio company AIAIAI set to work reinventing the earphone. Looking to minimize the constant tangles that plague the modern earphone, they came up with the Swirl. With a literal twist on the existing style, they managed…

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Entertainment
Listen to This: Wolf Parade + Band of Horses

While some fans of Wolf Parade may have been disappointed with their second album (first album Appologies to Queen Mary is excellent. Haven’t listened? Do it. Right now.), the anticipated third album Expo 86 has arrived and let's just say the band has redeemed themselves.  Another long awaited release is…

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The Roundup
Southern Hospitality With Billy Reid

For some inexplicable reason, men are fascinated with old shit. Classic cars, vintage vinyl, aged whiskey - pick your poison. We are also completely enthralled with the whole do-it-yourself thing, which sometimes ends disastrously for our garages, wallets, and sex lives. Billy Reid is a guy afflicted just like any…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Phones
Element Vapor iPhone 4 Case

If you've already got an iPhone 4 then you got in on the ground floor for all the goodies - portable chatroulette, sleek redesign, and an unheard of amount of fragile glass. Oh yeah, and if you happen to be left-handed you're pretty much F-d in the A if you…

By Cooper Fleishman
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ICON CJ3B Willy Jeep Replica

You've seen the commercials: an attractive couple loads things into their glossy new Jeep--a surf board, golf clubs, a cooler, a golden retriever, a pair of kids--all while smiling  like it's the most fun they've ever had doing anything, including making those two kids.    Well the truth is, the…

By Wylie Overstreet
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