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A JOURNEY INSIDE the GRITTY, GLITZY, VIOLENT, VIRAL, FAST-GROWING WORLD of PROFESSIONAL slap fighting THE IMAGE THAT I CAN'T FORGET-THE ONE THAT TRULY PULLS ME INTO THE SAVAGE, surreal, and [...]

Inspired by Hawaii and Hong Kong, Pharrell made a collection for Louis Vuitton that's good for the beach, the boat, and the bar It's more than five thousand miles from [...]

SOMETIMES YOU JUST WANT TO SETTLE IN. SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO call the audible, cancel the next meetup, ask the sitter to stay late, and get your friends to come [...]

Kuan Mitchell Tom Glynn-Carney play brothers battling for power on the second season of HBO's Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon. Off camera, they're keeping each other humble. [...]

Known for disappearing into his roles, Bill Skarsgard captivated audiences by transforming himself into a terrifying clown in It and a ruthless villain in John Wick. But he went even [...]

Every man is afraid of becoming his father. There's a better way. We'll show you. SCIENTIFIC FACT: NO ONE HAS EVER SMILED WHILE saying the word father. Bowed their head [...]

Bubba Copeland was the heart and soul of his Alabama community--pastor, mayor, businessman. When a website exposed his deepest secrets, his life wasn't the only thing that was destroyed. An [...]

THE RIO TRAFUL FLOWS FOR TWELVE MILES, BRILLIANT mountain blue, between two lakes. On the north side of the river is Arroyo Verde, a majestic, ten-thousand-acre estancia. The matriarch, Meme, [...]

The actor, comedian, and writer has hit his career sweet spot: not 'widely reviled on the Internet yet' but high on the authentic power of making people laugh. BACK IN [...]

WHERE WERE WINNIFRED AND WILLOW? Last night he came downstairs around bedtime and didn't see either of them. This alarmed him. He wasn't worried about Monty--Monty's an old cat, shows [...]

Esquire has long had a mantra: 'man at his best.' And over the decades, as American culture has twisted its way through one radical shift after another, the magazine has [...]

It was the beginning of one of those long summers in Bloomington, Illinois, the air so heavy you could chew it. The evening before, he and his girlfriend, Misook Nowlin, [...]

KINGSLEY BEN-ADIR IS HITTING HIS VAPE AT THE CLIP THAT MOST people sip beer, telling me a story about smoking weed on the way to Dave Chappelle's house. ('I fucking [...]

AUSTIN BUTLER IS ABOUT TO GET HIS ASS WHUPPED. Butler, towheaded and scrawny, not more than nine years old and painfully shy, cowers. The class bully is on the other [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. AUGUST 26, 2023 Can't tell you what Martin Luther Kingjr. was doing in the hours, minutes, before he delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech, but 1 can [...]

IF THE LATEST MENSWEAR FROM GIORGIO ARMANI FEELS FAMILIAR TO YOU, THAT'S PROOF of concept. When the Milanese designer introduced his radically reimagined interpretation of traditional tailoring in 1975, he [...]

The man in the gray flannel suit is long gone. But even his sartorial descendants disappeared somewhere in the last fifteen years or so, along with the idea of wearing [...]

RAMY YOUSSEF has spent the last several months of 2023 on a global stand-up tour, which is ending its U. S. leg just as he hits the big screen in [...]

LENNY KRAVITZ DOES NOT BLEND IN. WE'RE SITTING IN Bemelmans, the iconic piano bar at the Upper East Side's historic Carlyle Hotel. Here, things are done properly. Have been since [...]

BACK IN THE MID-NINETIES, MY FRIENDS AND I SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN nightclubs dancing to A Tribe Called Quest and Nas. The de facto uniform was baggy Maurice [...]

REALNESS CAN BE THRILLING. AND fortunately, radical authenticity is surging in the world of American dining. Perhaps chefs are becoming braver and more willing to put their personal stories on [...]

'DONALD TRUMP WON THE 2020 ELECTION,' STEVE BANNON pronounces. 'Of that there is not even a question.' Obviously you expect me not to agree with you, I say. 'Of course [...]

IT ALL STARTED WITH A HANDSHAKE, OR at least it was supposed to. For as long as anyone can remember, contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and Detroit's Big [...]

FOR YEARS NOW, PIERRE THIAM HAS BEEN patiently waiting for everyone else to catch up with him. You can look at that in a variety of ways. There is, first [...]

Tim Flores and Genie Kwon, Kasama, Chicago Kasama could be seen as a bakery-driven fast-casual joint by day and a revelatory fine-dining spot by night. But it's really one thing: [...]

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.... Exodus, 23:1-2 [...]

THERE ARE MORE THAN EIGHT BILLION PEOPLE ON PLANET earth, and very few of them can remain relatable while they're telling you about the time the diamond fell out of [...]

This page, from top: Vacheron Constantin Overseas Chronograph ($79,500), the height of sporty-meets-dressy versatility rendered in 18k pink gold. TAG Heuer Carrera Chronosprint x Porsche ($9,200), the classic Carrera chronograph [...]

RENWICK STREET, BEING BLIND, MUST BE ONE OF THE LEASTtraveled streets in all New York, a one-block one-way that dead-ends at Canal and doesn't see much traffic, foot or car. [...]

WHEN ERNEST HEMINGWAY WASN'T AT FINCA VIGIA, HIS HOUSE 30 MINUTES FROM HAVANA, he was likely at the Floridita, drinking frozen daiquiris at the end of the bar. Hemingway was [...]

AND SO I SIT THERE, HIGH ON MUSHROOMS, TAKING A SHIT IN THE BATHROOM OF THE pastor's home. It's been hours since I ate the chocolate, and I still feel [...]

Photographs by JASON KIBBLER Styling by NICK [...]

JOHN BOYEGA WOULD NOT LIE DOWN. IT WAS 2021, AND HE WAS filming an early scene for the blistering sci-fi conspiracy thriller They Cloned Tyrone, which hit theaters this summer. [...]

THERE WAS A TIME, SOMEWHERE AROUND THE MID-20108, when the fashion industry began to question the relevance of the traditional fashion show in the digital age. The doubt was short-lived. [...]

'GOD, PLEASE HELP ME DO THE BEST I CAN FOR PENNY DAHL and for her daughter. If someone took that young woman, I hope she's still alive, and it's your [...]

A SUMMER AFTERNOON IN NEW YORK'S WEST VILLAGE, A WARM day fast turning hotter, and inside Buvette Gastratheque-a tiry bistro perfectly Parisian that there's another one in the Quartier Pigalle, [...]

THE RULE BOOK IS OFFICIALLY out the window. Men's fashion is more fluid now than ever. Sure, that means getting dressed is a little more fraught-but it's also exponentially more [...]

JOURNEY MUELLER WASN'T ready to come out. At eighteen, the Colorado Christian University freshman had only just admitted to herself that she liked women. But one autumn day in 2017, [...]

WHETHER YOU'RE A GROOMING novice or the type of guy who spends hours in front of the mirror, the key to a modern routine is working smarter, not harder. Each [...]

'IT WAS NOT THE EASIEST day.' This is how the British filmmaker Andrew Haigh sums up the experience of deciding whether to come out to his father, again. 'My dad [...]

Baseball's mightiest slugger is bearing the weight of his blockbuster contract, his own records, and the supersized expectations that come w ith being the leading man of New York sports. [...]

When founder Hans Wilsdorf came up with the name 'Rolex' in 1908, he couldn't have known the resonance that otherwise meaningless word would have a century later. By 1931, when [...]

The culture war over what kids and teens should be allowed to read has reached a flash point in North Dakota. But this time, the fight isn't in schools-it's at [...]

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ENOUGH WITH THE LEGEND STUFF. IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE JOB AND WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE, HARRISON FORD IS UP FOR THAT. THE LAST TIME [...]

Stephen King AUTHOR; 76; BANGOR, MAINE FAME IS A PAIN IN THE ASS. The older you get, the more of a pain in the ass it is. But you have [...]

THE FIRST NATIONAL POLITICAL CONVENTION THAT I EVER WENT TO WAS ONE I DIDN'T really attend. It was 1976. I had spent the previous 18 months trying to get Congressman [...]

After a lifetime of running from confrontation, I took up boxing at age 40. In the ring, I finally discovered what it was like to deliver a blow--and to take [...]

I love, revere, and respect women. So how can I listen to music that demeans them? THE LAST SUMMER OF MY TWEENS-1987-I GOT MY HANDS ON a cassette of Too [...]

THERE MUST BE SOMETHING IN THE WATER. Suddenly it seems like every brand is taking a fresh look at the boat shoe and saying, 'Yeah, we can do something really [...]