Old Cloth
Home Court
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Those little black grains of wonder, chia seeds, are a superfood full of zinc, magnesium, selenium, and, of course, omega-3s, as well as fiber.”
Clear Skies
Vroom
Available in September 2026
Seiko’s latest limited-edition 5 Sports pays tribute to Honda’s delightfully quirky Motocompo folding scooter from the early ’80s. The compact automatic watch packs in clever design references—from the vibrant scooter-inspired dial and crown to the utility-style nylon strap—while its wearable 36.4mm case and 8,000-piece production run make it especially collectible.
Chain Reaction
Telling Time
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You can probably still hang with younger guys—but that doesn’t mean you always should.”
Beast Mode
Heat Check
Pair With
Also Worth a Watch
Fly Casual
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The Toyota Tacoma is one of the most popular mid-size pickup trucks on sale in America today, with a wide range of variants. But what if there were a luxury version?”
Food for Thought
Sole Mates
The memes are still making the rounds, and there’s no official tally, but a few jokes keep showing up at the top of the roundups after Tuesday’s midterms. The standout seems to be “We literally got blue Texas before GTA 6.” BuzzFeed’s list of the 50 best memes about the blue wave features it prominently. The Hollywood Reporter’s roundup leans on Regina George and The Office references.
Well Suited
Telling Time
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Did you find yourself wishing the new Audi RS5 had more power under the hood?”
Last Call
Next Chapter
AeroPress's most refined brewer swaps the original's plastic for a walnut-wood plunger, metal hardware and a borosilicate-glass chamber, while keeping the same immersion-and-pressure brewing method that built its cult following. A wood-accented manual grinder arrives alongside it, marking the brand's furthest step yet from its utilitarian roots.
Hard Wear
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During the season, you’re always thinking about the next game … I’ve learned that giving yourself time to step away is part of that preparation, too.”
Telling Time
Making Scents
Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Republican Barry Goldwater in one of the largest presidential landslides in U.S. history. This election, held on the 3rd, also allowed the residents of the District of Columbia to cast their ballots in a presidential election for the first time since 1800.
Cold Front
Picture This
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Conan O'Brien unpacks 28 years of late night, two Oscar hosting gigs, and a career that keeps finding new gears.”
Leap of Faith
Contax made the point-and-shoot something of a luxury object. The titanium-clad T2, launched in 1990, pairs a Carl Zeiss Sonnar lens with a body built like a fine watch. If you want to get off your phone and shoot with a real camera, you can find a range of options from around $200 to just under $1,500 on eBay from reputable sellers.
Layer Up
Rise Up
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Moonphase complications used to cost Rolex money.”
Vroom
Jet Set
Out now
James Watkins, who made the tense American remake of Speak No Evil, takes DC's shape-shifting actor-turned-monster and runs it as body horror, from a Mike Flanagan script. A wide studio release that's betting a comic-book property can be genuinely unsettling rather than another origin story.
Out now
The team behind Save Yourself! returns with Wicker, a folk-horror-adjacent swing starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård and Elizabeth Debicki. Black Bear's backing and a Halloween-weekend date suggest confidence. The cast alone justifies the ticket; whether the film earns them is the October question.
Out now
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim on Elizabeth Holmes. Fielder made The Rehearsal and Nathan For You; Oppenheim made Ren Faire, the best documentary series of 2024. Two filmmakers who treat self-delusion as a formal problem, pointed at the most documented fraud of the century.
Vroom
Hit the Trail
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The timepiece boasts the proprietary Quickswitch system, which makes removing and swapping straps as simple as clicking a button.”
Peak Grief
Square One
Think of it less as preparation and more as alignment. Thirty to sixty minutes, once a week, done the same way every time. Here’s how to tackle it.
Check In
Joltin' Time
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How does this not nuke the battery on a device that’s already criticized for needing daily fill-ups?”
Brief Case
Available on October 28
Japanese label Auralee and Danish textile specialist Tekla are teaming up again, this time turning their attention to cozy Scandinavian winters. The collection brings together both brands’ obsession with exceptional fabrics, offering checked flannel pajamas, wool-cashmere knits, shearling slippers and beautifully crafted bedding. It’s luxurious, understated comfort but it’s not cheap: The sleepwear set runs around $500.
Fleece Market
High Spirits
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The most celebrated “space watches” all date back to NASA’s early days … one of the most impressive and best-looking extraterrestrial tool watches first saw action in the 1980s and comes from Sinn. ”
Vroom
Next Stop
Out now
The fifth season of Campside Media's anthology Chameleon turns on a hypnotist working the fringes of medicine and celebrity. The house that made Wild Boys reports these out properly — con artistry, no bodies. Good commute listening when you want a story, not a case file.
Out now
Karina Longworth has spent a decade turning old Hollywood's buried stories into rigorous, archive-deep narrative on You Must Remember This. The new season, The Bisexuals, traces how the studios handled (and hid) sexuality on screen. She's taking it on a 14-city tour in November.
Out now
Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas traces how the Chicago Outfit built the Strip and how the feds took it back, told through interviews with the agents, dealers and wiseguys who were there. Newspaper reporting, not true-crime theatrics. Good company on a long drive.
Alps Bound
Mile Marker
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As nearly everyone has a 24-hour helper on their phone, a chatbot who will pretend to care, we dream of the truly scarce: human beings who really care.”
Vroom
Bend Test
If you want a full party’s worth of music, this seven-hour playlist has over 150 songs and nearly a million people have already saved it.
This collection of classic Halloween tunes is mixed with sound effects and even familiar theme songs.
This collection of hair-raising sounds and eerie scores from horror-film classics is the thinking man’s Halloween party plastlist.
