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A Haunted Road Trip: Ghosts, Cocktails, and a Very Creepy Hospital

A Haunted Road Trip: Ghosts, Cocktails, and a Very Creepy Hospital

From dilapidated hospitals to disapproving librarians in a bar, I took a haunted Eastern Washington road trip.

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The Future of Bourbon Is Behind This Door

Bourbon has spent the last decade getting bigger, older, and more expensive. What happens next?

Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival
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Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival
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The Future of Bourbon Is Behind This Door
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The Future of Bourbon Is Behind This Door

Bourbon has spent the last decade getting bigger, older, and more expensive. What happens next?

Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival
Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival
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Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Bourbon has never been bigger. And somehow, it still has secrets.

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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 Cool Material 2026 Fall Style Guide

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My Blind Date With Victoria at the Presidents Cup
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My Blind Date With Victoria at the Presidents Cup

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This Los Angeles-Based Microbrand Makes the Best Tool Watch Under $1,000
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This Los Angeles-Based Microbrand Makes the Best Tool Watch Under $1,000

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Finding Nature and Nurture in Puerto Vallarta
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We all know them, and unfortunately we all encounter them on an all-too-frequent basis. Douchebags.  No, not literal douchebags...if you're encountering the actual feminine hygiene product frequently, you are either a gynecologist or a creep. We're talking about the turds that pop their collars, park like assholes, and generally make you lose faith in humanity's…

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Velorbis Leikier Bicycle

Bicycles are admirable inventions: simple, supremely efficient, and graceful.  They can also be ungainly and supremely uncomfortable, as if the main purpose of the bike wasn't human-powered transport, but some medieval device designed to inflict pain on that small-but-important spot between your ass and your junk.  Velorbis have designed their Leikier bike…

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How to Make Bacon from Scratch

Bacon.  It has a wonderful place in human history. Humans have eaten it for thousands of years, traded it as a staple of economies, and most recently, turned it into an internet meme. It’s no mystery why we have a love affair with Bacon. It’s the Christina Hendricks of meat…

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Ryobi Tek4 4V Infrared Thermometer

The Ryobi Tek4 infared thermometer is one of those things that combines many innate joys of the male mind.  It looks like a laser gun, you get to "shoot" it at anything and everything, and it supplies random information at the press of a button. Moreover, you can shoot it…

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Drinique Knuckle Bottle Opener

Combining brass knuckles and a bottle opener is either a recipe for pure excellence or absolute destruction. Unfortunately, because they're "technically" a deadly weapon opening a beer with that dude's face probably isn't going to fly with the cops. But in the event that it does happen (we're not pointing…

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