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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

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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
Our Picks

Featured Stories

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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
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
By Cool Material
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Lifestyle
The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
By Cool Material
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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.

Steals

The best deals and offers on the web

Editors' Picks

A curated selection of our favorite gear

Must-Reads

Our team’s top picks

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Travel
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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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The Cool Shop
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What We're Buying
What We're Buying

The Cool Shop

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What We're Buying

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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What We're Buying

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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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What We're Buying

The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

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Lifestyle
Lifestyle

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

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iSkin Enigma iPhone Skin

Use protection. Your mother has been trying to tell you this since the time you were 16, but it finally took a $400 iPhone to make it really sink in. And with a replacement cost somewhere between get another job and sell a kidney, protection finally makes sense. As opposed…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
Dalhart Designs Belt Buckles

B. Cooper Dalhart is a man that succeeded where most of us failed - he paid attention in shop class. As opposed to making tables and bowls (and not the type you give to your grandmother), he chose to weld and eventually turned his passion into a successful career. Now…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audio
Etón Soulra iPod Speakers

A day at the beach is best accompanied by music, but battery-powered iPod speakers die too quickly and sound like a kazoo. So Eton decided to make the Soulra, a set that endlessly powers good speakers with a giant, spherical, thermonuclear fusion bomb. Some folks call it "The Sun", but…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Accessories
Stanley & Sons Bags

It always catches our eye when someone is sticking to the tradition of constructing quality products in one-off quantities. Yes, these bags by Stanley and Sons are not cheap: you'd think that by "waxed cotton cloth" they mean "waxed cotten dyed with platinum dust and washed in unicorn tears". But…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Entertainment
The Godfather: Family Album

The Godfather films were pretty phenomenal movies. They're the kind of movies guys, when drunk, will quote repeatedly (a true hallmark of a great film). And while your Brando accent will always sound like you have a cleft palette and a bad cold, you can at least know the Godfather…

By Wylie Overstreet
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