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Tom Hayes

A Dead Pirate’s Weekend in Florida

The numbers get fuzzy fast when you ask how much unfound pirate gold is still out there, but people who make a living pulling history off the seafloor quietly say

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Rat Pack Weekends

The Fever Dream of Ghana’s Hand-Made Movie Posters

Ghanaian movie posters are a lie that tells the truth, the way all great hustles do. They promise a film, but what they really deliver is a fever dream of

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Off the Map

An Outlaw Weekend on Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail

Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s in his pocket – along with a pack of Camels, a Zippo lighter and a roll of dimes, a final

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Rat Pack Weekends

Holy Bivalves: Oysters the Right Way

The universe is full of mysteries – quarks, black holes, Dancing with the Stars – so speaking in absolutes can be really tricky. But the one thing I am certain

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Eat

The New Bohemia: Where’s the Next Berlin?

Iggy Pop and David Bowie pulled out of the Los Angeles spiral in the mid‑’70s and holed up in West Berlin, looking for cheaper rent, fewer dealers, and a clean

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Off the Map

Beach Bars Worth Missing Your Flight For

A sandy beach bar doesn’t just feel like telepathy; it’s a slow-motion con job your senses are absolutely in on. The place lines up all the cheap, legal brain hacks—blue

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Drink

The New Sensation of Umami Cocktails

I love me the occasional mai tai or tiki umbrella drink, but generally speaking I’m not a fan of sweet cocktails. If you’re like me, you welcome the growing trend

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Drink

Chiapas: Where Coffee and Revolution Grow Wild

Somewhere deep in the jungle of Chiapas, Mexico, where the road ends and the real world begins, the Zapatistas have been holding their ground for three decades. They wear masks

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Off the Map

A Midnight Tapeo in Madrid

To understand tapas is to understand Spain, and Spain is not a simple country. It’s the place that gave us the Spanish Inquisition, Generalissimo Franco and Pablo Picasso (let’s not

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Eat

Why You Need to Run with the Bulls

Every year, thousands of people—half thrill‑seekers, half lunatics—flock to Pamplona for the Encierro —the running of the bulls. It’s chaos wrapped in white cloth and red silk, a city drunk

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Epic Adventures

The New Sensation of Umami Cocktails

I love me the occasional mai tai or tiki umbrella drink, but generally speaking I’m not a fan of sweet cocktails. If you’re like me, you welcome the growing trend

Read More

Drink

Chiapas: Where Coffee and Revolution Grow Wild

Somewhere deep in the jungle of Chiapas, Mexico, where the road ends and the real world begins, the Zapatistas have been holding their ground for three decades. They wear masks

Read More

Off the Map

A Midnight Tapeo in Madrid

To understand tapas is to understand Spain, and Spain is not a simple country. It’s the place that gave us the Spanish Inquisition, Generalissimo Franco and Pablo Picasso (let’s not

Read More

Eat

Why You Need to Run with the Bulls

Every year, thousands of people—half thrill‑seekers, half lunatics—flock to Pamplona for the Encierro —the running of the bulls. It’s chaos wrapped in white cloth and red silk, a city drunk

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Epic Adventures

The Old Worthen, Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell, Massachusetts is one of those old mill towns where the ghosts still punch the clock, a brick‑and‑granite reminder of when the Merrimack River powered the American dream and chewed

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Around the World in 80 Bars

Your New Go-To Might be Camel Burger

The beast must be fed: the public has a voracious appetite for the next big thing. This round, Kazakh food is in the crosshairs. Almaty in winter feels like a

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Eat

Chasing the Dragon on Komodo Island

You go to Komodo Island because a rational brain isn’t enough anymore and you need to stand in front of something that could casually eat you and not even bother

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Epic Adventures

The OG: Brazen Head Pub, Dublin

The Brazen Head pub sits at the top of Dublin’s Lower Bridge Street like a medieval checkpoint, a squat brick fortress shouting “1198” at every pilgrim passerby. It clearly wants

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Around the World in 80 Bars

Drive in a Demolition Derby? Hell Yeah

When I was a kid, Saturday mornings were a full‑body narcotic: cartoons on a cheap Zenith until the mind went soft, then the UHF ether hissed alive with something holy

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Rat Pack Weekends

Big Game Fishing on the Gulf

You and your crew are not experienced fishermen, not by a long shot, but this trip isn’t about trophies—it’s a sacred, long‑overdue gathering of your loyal rat pack. At stake

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Rat Pack Weekends

The Writers Bar Singapore

Singapore is a complicated place—very orderly on the surface, wild at the edges, stitched together by a serious street scene: hawker centers, street stalls, and a mash‑up of cultures –

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Around the World in 80 Bars