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The Dirt Expo Is Coming to the California Coast — And It's Bringing the Whole Off-Road World With It For years, the American off-road scene has revolved around the desert Southwest — the blinding alkali flats of Nevada, the hard-packed trails outside Scottsdale, the sand dunes of Lake Havasu. But

From Firecracker to Full Line: United Cigars Turns Its Independence Smash Hit Into a Permanent Offering There are limited releases that sell out quietly, their memory fading with the smoke, and then there are limited releases that create enough noise to reshape a company's product road map entirel

Macau Carves Out a Compromise: Cigars Win Exemption From Harshest Packaging Rules in Sweeping Tobacco Law Overhaul Macau's legislative machinery has been grinding through one of its most ambitious rewrites of tobacco law in years, and when the dust settled on the cigar debate, suppliers had reason

Brooklyn Roasting Company Pulls Over 3,000 Gallons of Cold Brew Over Botulism Fears Cold brew coffee has become as much a part of the American morning routine as the alarm clock — smooth, low-acid, and brutally caffeinated. But a major recall out of New York is now forcing wholesale buyers, café o

America's Off-Road Obsession Is Back — And It Wants Nothing to Do With Electric Power Something is shifting in the American psyche behind the wheel. After years of relentless messaging about the electric future, a new wave of data suggests that when drivers dream about dirt roads, mountain passes,

North Carolina's Elk Are Back — And Now the Hunt Begins For more than two centuries, the mountains of western North Carolina stood silent of one of the most commanding animals that ever walked the Appalachians. Elk, native to Southern Appalachia, had disappeared from Western North Carolina due to

The Trash That Saves Lives: How Plastic Bottles Are Keeping Dolphins Out of Fishing Nets It sounds like the setup to a bad joke — a marine biologist walks into a fishing village with a bag of empty soda bottles — but what researchers discovered when they strapped those bottles onto gillnets off th

Bear Spray vs. Bullets: The Fight Over What Montana Hunters Must Carry Into Grizzly Country It's a debate that cuts right to the heart of how the American West manages its most powerful and controversial predator. On one side, a coalition of wildlife advocates armed with mortality statistics and e

America's Off-Road Obsession Just Hit a New Gear Something fundamental has shifted in how American drivers think about their weekends. Not the casual road-tripper plotting a route down the interstate, but the guy who wants mud on his fenders, gravel pinging his skid plates, and a tree line overhea

AG Cigars Launches the Legendary Moment Series, Honoring Jamie Foxx and Ray Lewis There is a short list of cigar makers in the world whose biography reads like a screenplay, and Alejandro "Alex" González Arias sits near the top of it. The Cuban-born master roller — better known in cigar circles si