
This Week in Culture: September 5, 2014
This Week in Culture: IKEA’s images are fake, send-ups of a Linkin Park jam, the discovery of a giant dinosaur, the NFL’s secret finances and more.

This Week in Culture: IKEA’s images are fake, send-ups of a Linkin Park jam, the discovery of a giant dinosaur, the NFL’s secret finances and more.
By Tucker Bowe

Leave it to an Alaskan to invent a new way to drink alcohol outdoors.

We sit down with Eric Wallace of Left Hand Brewing and Brett Joyce of Rogue Ales to talk about brewing technology, stout glasses and Miley Cyrus.
By Kenny Gould

Today in Gear: Sony’s QX30 camera lens for smartphones, Dyson’s smart vaccuum, Elijah Craig’s 23-year-old whiskey, and much more.
By Jack Seemer

Sailors rely on wind. Surfers need waves.
By Tucker Bowe

What do hikers, disaster survivors and Walter White have in common? They all need to communicate without a cell tower.

Boats, kayaks and canoes are large and unwieldy, but these five will fit in your apartment.
By Peter Koch

Trail Ridge Road is the highest continuous paved road in the United States, stretching from Estes Park to Grand Lake, Colorado.
By Will McGough

Today in Gear: Samsung’s new Galaxy Note Edge, the Lumo Lift posture tracker, a new Polaris ATV, and more.
By Nick Milanes
Drones both commercial and noncommercial face a slew of bureaucratic challenges in the near future.
By Darren Murph

When General Nathan Twining, chief of staff of the U.S.
By Jan Tegler

The Weiss Watch Co. Standard Issue Field Watch was built with a bold purpose — that of an affordable, American-made heirloom.
By Chris Wright

Bolivia’s 424,164 square miles make it the 28th largest country in the world. Those square miles are also some of the most biodiverse in the world, with ecologies ranging from tropical rainforests to dry valleys to stepped savannas.
By Sung Han

Though you’ve probably never heard about it, Red Bull Global Rallycross is arguably motorsports’ best kept secret, and its most promising up-and-comer.

Steep slopes, muddy trails, river crossings and scree slopes turn a garden variety trip into a journey. Adrenaline junkies, take note: off-road excursions are just as exciting as transcontinental road trips, if not more so.

Taylor Fladgate, one of the council of elders in the Port world, released a 50-year-old tawny port in 2014.

The vibrant Portuguese capital is experiencing a cultural renaissance, fueled by a creative society motivated to lead the city out of economic decay.
By Ross Belfer

If a visit to London is European Vacation 101, and Paris is 201, Lisbon is a seminar-level adventure.
By Ross Belfer

With the Appalachians to the east and Rockies to the west, the relatively flat American Midwest doesn’t call to mind a hiking destination. But that’s dead wrong.

Alastair Humphreys has bicycled around the world; embarked on polar expeditions; completed a self-supported, thousand-mile walk through the Empty Quarter Desert; rowed the Atlantic; crossed India coast-to-coast on foot and backpacked and packrafted across Iceland, among other expeditions.
By Peter Koch