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Are These the Most Underrated Watches of the Year?

Citizen’s newest luxury collections set a new bar for everyday excellence.

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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

Give drink lovers gifts like these. And they'll make you good drinks in return. Win, win.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery

Check out our CM product review of the hottest product in wellness right now: the Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot. Spoiler alert -- it’s a gamechanger!

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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It

They've explored 10,000 miles together. Here are their essentials.

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Feeling the Burn

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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle
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The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle

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Hypershell X Review: The Future of Hiking Has Legs

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50
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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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New Balance is Offering 25% Off Sitewide. Right Now.

New Balance. You know the name well. For good reason. In our eyes, they’ve reached classic status. Find someone who doesn’t recognize the iconic “N” on their sneakers. We’ll wait. Actually, we don’t have time to wait. Because their Cyber Monday sale is happening from the 26th to the 30th.…

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Vaer’s D4 Solar Dive Watch Is Built to Keep You on Time in Even the Most Extreme Conditions

When it comes to keeping track of the time--whether you're traveling around the world or surviving for months in the woods--there's no substitute for a good watch. That's where the Vaer D4 Solar Dive Watch comes in. Powered by light (sun, lamps, candles or anything of the like) and assembled…

By Pat McLaughlin
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The United States of Cocktails

Looking to up your cocktail game? Want to learn about the history of mixed drinks in the United States? Well, publisher Graphic Image has you covered with their leather-bound coffee table book The United States of Cocktails. This nearly 300-page tome features regional cocktails from coast to coast with beautiful…

By John A. Paradiso
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The 8 Best Movies You May Have Missed This Year

We're fast approaching the end of the year. And that means studios are flooding theaters (and, if they bother, streaming services) with movies that they want to convince you are must-sees. Some of them probably are. If you’re any kind of moviegoer, you’ll probably check them out. But as studios…

By Andy Crump
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The Best Film Noir for Noirvember

November is a time for turkey and growing facial hair. It’s a time for gratitude. It’s a time for sitting in the shadows with a handful of film noirs. You know those shadowy, cynical, effortlessly cool crime thrillers that proliferated throughout the 1940s and were fundamental to the movies’ development…

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