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The World's Strongest Cigar Is Back — And This Time, You'd Better Be Ready Some cigars make a quiet debut and earn their reputation slowly, box by box, review by review, over years of humidor rotation. The World's Strongest Cigar did none of that. When it made its debut at the 2024 New England Cig

BMW Comes Clean: The 2027 X5 Won't Be a Better Off-Roader — And the Company Is Fine With That For nearly three decades, the BMW X5 has occupied a peculiar sweet spot in the American automotive landscape — too luxurious to be a genuine trail machine, too capable to be dismissed as a mere boulevard

The Watch That Breaks Luminox's Most Sacred Rule There is an unwritten covenant that Luminox has honored for more than three decades: keep it light, keep it black, keep it in polycarbonate, and wrap it in rubber. That formula didn't emerge from a marketing department. It came out of the field — te

Micallef Expands Its Exclusive Gordo Lineup at Two Guys Cigars with Blue, Green, and White Additions There are partnerships in the premium cigar world that make intuitive sense from the moment they're announced, and the growing collaboration between Micallef Cigars and Two Guys Cigars is shaping u

The Man Who Built a Billion-Dollar Empire Is Starting Over — and He's Calling It N3W5 There are very few figures in the global watch industry who can claim to have personally transformed a legacy manufacture into a cultural phenomenon. François-Henri Bennahmias is one of them. The man who spent a

PROCIGAR and the Monument to the Heroes of the Restoration Launch a Permanent Immersive Experience Celebrating Santiago's Tobacco Heritage There is a building at the center of Santiago de los Caballeros that cigar smokers know by instinct. The Monumento a los Héroes de la Restauración — a towering

The Premium Cigar Association Is Planting Its Flag in Hong Kong — and the Industry Is Paying Attention For decades, the center of gravity in the premium cigar world has been fixed somewhere between the tobacco fields of Nicaragua, the auction floors of Geneva, and the trade show floors of Las Vega

South Dakota Opens the Humidor: How HB 1215 Ended a 16-Year Freeze on Cigar Bars — and Why Washington Is Taking Notice In the world of premium cigars, the wins are rarely loud. They don't happen on national stages or in sweeping federal legislation. They happen in state capitals — in committee roo

Colorado's Furbearer Fight: Inside the Push to Cap Kills and Kill the Fur Trade For generations, trappers and hunters across Colorado have worked beavers, bobcats, coyotes, and foxes with almost no numerical ceiling on how many animals they could take in a single outing. That era may be drawing to

Lake Erie's Walleye Obsession: Where Science Meets a Fishing Culture Like No Other There is a particular kind of madness that takes hold of a man once he gets serious about walleye fishing on Lake Erie. It doesn't announce itself — it creeps in somewhere between the pre-dawn alarm clock and the th