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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 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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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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The best deals and offers on the web

Editors' Picks

A curated selection of our favorite gear

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Our team’s top picks

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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
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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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Nike Air Royal Mid QS Sneakers

Say what you want about the often ostentatious, over-the-top, generally ridiculous practices of Nike, but they just did it. Again. What started as a cure for the common shoe has turned into a complete vaccination for a brand that was only ever at home on basketball players and Turtle. If…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Kick-Ass on DVD

It raised a ton of controversy with a 13 year-old girl using a word that rhymes with "Shhcunt", but both movie-goers and critics agreed that Kick-Ass, if you pardon the super-obvious pun, kicked ass.   This movie redeems Nicholas Cage from his prior cinematic crimes of Ghost Rider and Con…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Fashion
EOS Mixtape Watches

Right around when MC Hammer entered the ministry and Kurt Cobain scratched an itch on the roof of his mouth with a well-aimed shotgun, tape cassettes became truly obsolete. The CD had hit its stride, and the those lovable plastic things that used to self-disembowel that shiny black ribbon on…

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Home
Aged Steel Panel Bed

Home furnishing isn't high up on the list of priorities for most guys.  We understand it may not occur to you it's time to replace the saggy futon you snagged off Craigslist/your college roommate/the side of the road that now has the softness of packed sandbags.  But having a solid,…

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Aiaiai TMA-1 DJ Headphones

How do you a judge the effectiveness of a pair of DJ headphones? According to Jon Schumann (Mannhandle's music production god) it has to be able to withstand a night of "playing very loud, getting very drunk, and getting stepped on" and the Aiaiai TMA-1 is the first product that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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