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MICHAEL SEBASTIAN EDITOR IN CHIEF NICK SULLIVAN_Creative Director ABIGAIL GREENE_Executive Managing Editor ROCKWELL HARWOOD_Design Director JOHN KENNEY_Managing Editor KELLY STOUT_Articles Director KEVIN SINTUMUANG_Culture and Lifestyle Director JONA
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What Would Donny Do?
I HAVE ONE SIBLING, A BROTHER NAMED DONNY. Because he’s seven years older, our childhood worlds rarely overlapped. When he was a high school senior, preoccupied with girls and Guns N’ Roses, I was in the fourth grade, building Lego pirate ships and m
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The Case for Clutter
OVER THE HOLIDAYS, I joined my family in helping our mother pack up her condo and move into a smaller place. Our parents kept a tidy house, but every home has one: the unfinished part of the basement, the cellar of misfit toys (and old rugs and catho
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The Unstreamables
De La Soul The work of this groundbreaking hip-hop act was still not available for streaming at press time. Fine; it sounds better on a turntable anyway. Their debut is so good, even the skits are worth listening to. Tommy Keene If you know, you know
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Smooth Operator
FEW CARS SIGNAL SUCCESS, without feeling gauche or having the whiff of midlife crisis, like a Mercedes-Benz SL. It is the car Benz has produced the longest, with each version being distinctly of its era. A graceful Pagoda SL from the ’60s looks nothi
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Miami’s Most Non-Miami Bar
YOU CAME TO MIAMI FOR THE BEACH. The sun. The sand. The chorus of lapping waves from the nearby Atlantic. You won’t get any of those at Broken Shaker, the understated backyard watering hole at the Freehand, a sceney hotel just spitting distance from
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Dear Mr. Fantasy
BY V. E. SCHWAB I’ve been sold on the idea of eternal life since I was six years old, so it says something that this novel finally cured me of it. Addie meets a guy. Sparks fly; clothes fly off. Addie wakes up first and starts counting down the minut
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It’s Time for the Mule, Boys
BLAME IT ON THE BOSTON. Not Boston Boston (tempting) but the Birkenstock Boston. Or point your finger at designer versions from JW Anderson or artisanal ones from Brother Vellies. Take your pick. Because while the entry points are varied, the truth i
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Miami, Nice
Strolling into the lobby of the Faena feels like being on the set of a sumptuous, dreamy old-Hollywood production. That’s no accident. The hotel’s redesign was headed up by fourtime Oscar-winning production designer Catherine Martin (along with her h
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All Watches Should Be Made Like This
LIKE THE SCIENCE-FICTION-Y cars developed to wow the automotive world, concept watches rarely trickle down into real life. But over at Panerai’s Laboratorio di Idee (that’s “Ideas Lab” in Italian), the eggheads dreaming up the future of timekeeping a
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Lifetime Warranty
I HAVE A MAN IN MY HOUSE, and he’s been aging for a long time now—I want to say 50-odd years. In my understanding, this aging process was supposed to refine all of his flavors, making him more robust yet more patient, more tenacious yet more caring.
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How My Grandfather Saw the World
TOWARD THE END, MY GRANDFATHER TOLD US ABOUT THE time he was sailing on a United States Navy battleship in the Mediterranean Sea and his convoy was attacked by the German Luftwaffe. In the cacophony and chaos, he watched a gunner on another American
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Now Boarding: White People
IT’S AN ETERNAL TRAVELING HOPE: the first-class upgrade. One I fortuned upon on a flight from New York to Phoenix, when a blithe attendant bopped back to my exit-row seat, asked my name, and announced that I’d be moving up front. All the way up front
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Are You Man Enough for the Beauty Counter?
Most “for men” grooming products are a sales gimmick, created by marketing wizards to sell you more stuff, not necessarily because they’ll work better. It’s kind of a scam, and it might be depriving you of better skin and hair. The fix? Ditch the gen
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Fashion Needs A Reality Check.
A shiny veneer means nothing if there’s no substance behind it. For something to be truly stylish—to stand the test of time, to deserve a spot in your wardrobe—it needs that can’t-quite-put-my-finger-on-it element that takes the dependable and turns
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Instant Icons
FOR STORE INFORMATION SEE PAGE 118. GROOMING: DENNIS DEVOY FOR KÉRASTASE AT ART DEPARTMENT. CASTING: EDWARD KIM. ■
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Wait’s WONDERFUL LIFE
I PICK UP JAKE GYLLENHAAL IN LOWER MANHATTAN, NOT OUT side his building, a redbrick factory converted into luxury condos designed for discretion, but instead at a hotel taxi stand three blocks south. We set out for Monticello Motor Club, a members-on
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Your New Go-to: an Old Jacket
BY NICK SULLIVAN WHILE MOST MODERN TECH jackets are destined to look meh in a few years, a waxed-cotton Barbour looks its best after putting on some miles. You could wait decades for your new International to weather itself into a pleasing state of d
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John Mellencamp
__ I AM THE luckiest motherfucker in the world. __ I WAS BORN with spina bifida. I had my head cut off when I was six weeks old. There were three other kids who had that same operation that day. The other kids died, and I lived. One girl made it for
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To Protect And Serve
special REPORT On October 22, 2017, Nicholas Pimentel, a twenty-seven-year-old restaurant cook, was driving his pickup truck home from a bar in Ceres, California, when police pulled him over for a traffc stop. But Pimentel didn’t stop, instead leadin
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The Joy Of Kendrick
IT’S AN EARLY WINTER EVENING IN MANHATTAN, AND KENDRICK SAMPSON AND I ARE settling into a quiet if antiseptic corner of the James hotel lobby. Despite working on a single hour of sleep, Sampson, thirty-three, manages to look warm and cheerful in a pa
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The Wrestler
It’s just hours before Monday Night Raw, the biggest show in the history of professional wrestling, is scheduled to begin, and CM Punk’s voice is echoing through the cavernous backstage of Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena. He is screaming for someone
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You Should Hang On To that
BRUNELLO CUCINELLI WAS HAVING A DRINK AT MANHATTAN’S Odeon bar in 1989 when he spotted twenty-eight-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. among the patrons. They didn’t speak, but Cucinelli, then thirty-six, observed the young Kennedy. He noticed his shoes—th
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Credits
STORE INFORMATION For the items featured in Esquire, please consult the website or call the phone number provided. Blueprint, p. 40: Birkenstock mules, birkenstock.com. P. 42: Panerai watch, panerai.com. P. 45: Tom Ford jacket, tomford.com. Lucchese
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March
It’s your last day on earth. You’ve said your goodbyes, counted up every regret, left enough food for the cat, and now you’re watching your life flash before your eyes. A song plays over tape of your best moments. Man, look at you, trick-or-treating
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Your New Happy-Hour Standby
YOU LAND. YOU DRINK. AND NOT UNTIL THEN have you arrived. As the cradle of cocktail culture in America, such is the way to offcially commune with New Orleans. While the city’s best bars have always had their way of making classics a touch unique, ove

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