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Like Father, Like Son

Wild Turkey’s powerful, flagship 101 proof blend has attracted both bourbon fans and “dirty bird” escapists thanks to its bold, peppery flavoring and leg-rubberizing alcohol content. For years, the company has also offered an 80 proof blend for those looking to enjoy bourbon and still stay conscious after a few rounds. While master distiller Jimmy [...]

Priority Male

Spending time hunting down the best grooming products ranks right above watching paint dry on our list of priorities. That said a man’s grooming practices should be just as tailored as his suits. For $12, a month, a new service called Black Box will ship you products that are hand picked for your individual skin [...]

A Foodie's Quarterly

Lucky Peach is the latest business venture of New York restauranteur David Chang. Based on the cover and Chang’s notorious personality, it’d be easy to dismiss this project as a simple exercise in brand extension (a la Skymag to Delta). A quick read of the first issue, however, proves that Lucky Peach is much deeper [...]

Dropping It Like It's Hot

The Gaggenau BL 253 Lift Oven ($3,000+) is the hoopty of the appliance world that was originally released back in 2007. Instead of forcing cooks to deal with opening doors and reaching into an oven’s heated core, this appliance features a LiftMatic glass ceramic base which lowers down from the oven. This allows users to [...]

Barkalounger

Supporting Pet Lounge Studio’s limited edition Bambu Pet Hammock kickstarter project is definitely one way to show your furry friend they’re numero uno. Designer Cory Drew approached the task as any furniture designer would, focusing on materials and lines. The result is a floating pooch palace that’s achieved by stretching the upholstery grade, ultra-suede pillow [...]

Leading a New Wave

We don’t cover a lot of music on this site, largely because we understand how personal and polarizing it can be. In the case of Within and Without by Washed Out, though, it’s worth making an exception — and no, it’s not about the racy cover art. Available starting July 12th (though you can listen [...]

Fine Wining

The Code38 Stealth Wine Knife ($410) is the type of thing you’d expect to learn about from tales of King Arthur pulling it out of a lake, or by catching a movie with Harrison Ford fleeing a cave with the Stealth in hand. It’s designer, Jeffrey Toering, cut his teeth as an instrument fitter in [...]

Big Tame Hunting

Nood’s wooden hunting trophies ($60) are the perfect wry interior accessory for karma-conscious men. Made from laser-cut, slotted wood, each head is easy to assemble and light enough to hang anywhere. There’s also an entire preserves worth of species to choose from, including stags, rhinos, moose, lions, and bears — oh my! Of course, if [...]

$325 | Jack Spade.com Made from densely woven 450-gram cotton canvas that has been salt water washed. The salt water gives the canvas a beached look and textured hand. Detailed with saddle leather trim, custom die-cast Jack Spade hardware in an antique brass finished, natural webbing with blue ticking stripes and a polyurethane-backed cotton twill [...]

A Game for Some, An Obession for Others

The Huntington Baseball Company was founded by William Peebles back in 2009 as a way to combine his passion for baseball history and design. He was fascinated by the evolution of the baseball glove from 1860′s to the 1920′s and wanted to apply his meticulous attention to detail and love of craftsmanship to recreate them. [...]

Is it a clever marketing campaign for DirecTV? Yes, but given the hilarious nature of the trailer and the fact that it involves grid iron stars Peyton and Eli Manning donning fake staches and hurling spirals of death…we still just had to share. Enjoy, and expect more of this series to develop as fall approaches. [...]

Everything is a Remix is a fascinating video series made by New York-based filmmaker Kirby Ferguson. In the series, Ferguson shares a persuasive case that connects our ephemeral notion of creativity with something far more concrete a.k.a copying. Whether you feel this posit is bollocks or not, we certainly tip our hat to Ferguson’s engaging [...]

More Space, Same Case

After sulking in the corner for the last two years from lack of attention, the Time Capsule ($300-$500) has finally received an update from the loving engineers in Cupertino. Well, sort of. Now the line consists of a 2TB and beefier 3TB model, which are available at the price points of the old 1TB and [...]

Meet the Lightest Cleats in Football

The NBA finals were reliably interrupted with commercials of Derrick Rose peddling his adiZero “crazy” light basketball shoes as the lightest basketball shoe ever. The Adidas adiZero 5-Star cleat ($100) have the similar bragging rights in the world of football. Their uppers are made from a single-layer of proprietary Sprintskin synthetic, which supposedly provides similar [...]

Upstaged

Famous amp maker Marshall shook up the audio world when they released the Marshal Major and Minor headphones. A little over a year later, they’ve now added some phone-friendly additions to their flagship Major ($120) cans in the form of an integrated mic and remote. Both features function as you’d expect, allowing users to answer [...]