Awesome Leisure

This 14-piece bartending set includes all the tools you need to make great cocktails. It includes a stainless steel shaker, a double jigger, two strainers, ice tongs, three pourers, a corkscrew, a muddler, 35 recipe cards, and a mixing spoon, all set into a modern bamboo organizer. Available in five color combinations.

Eddie Murphy returns to the role of Detective Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, as he teams up with his daughter to take down an evil conspiracy. Joseph Gordon-Levitt joins the cast as Foley’s new partner, while Rosewood and Taggart (Judge Reinhold and John Ashton) are back on duty for the action-comedy sequel. Coming to Netflix Summer 2024.

When is a bass not a bass? When it’s a piano, of course. Musician Charles Berthoud demonstrates what that sounds like with a fingerstyle bass rendition of Scott Joplin’s ragtime classic The Entertainer, incorporating some insane flourishes.

Want to fix a drink but don’t know what to make? Shane Carley’s book The Home Bartender offers recipes for more than 200 cocktails, all of which can be made with four ingredients or less. In addition to classics like Cosmos and Old Fashioneds, you’ll get lots of new and creative cocktail ideas.

In the midnight hour, I want to wish you a merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart. DJ Cummerbund has done it again, mashing up Billy Idol’s hit Rebel Yell with José Feliciano’s seasonal classic Feliz Navidad. With special guest appearances by Rob Zombie, Wham!, and Rush, it’s sure to bring joy to your holiday festivities.

Packed with biographical insight, the graphic novel Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound is also jazz for the eyes. Author/cartoonist Dave Chisholm — a Jazz Trumpet doctorate recipient from the Eastman School of Music — takes readers on a visual journey through Davis’ dynamic evolution from childhood through his mastery of jazz improvisation.

Thrasher and Tony Hawk looks back on his game-changing skateboarding career by pulling off a mix of classic and new tricks while reminding us you’re never too old to have fun. He’s joined for his video finalé by members of the 1980’s best skate team, the Bones Brigade. The track is All Stood Still by the woefully underappreciated Ultravox.

Etsy shop Fever Dream Supreme makes this giant-size d20 for Dungeons and Dragons players. Each 10-inch, 5-pound die is handcrafted from whitewood and hot-branded numbers on its 20 sides. It makes a great display piece or a hidden storage box if you opt for the removable panel. Available with or without stain or numbers.

Does somebody in your life need a blessing or a curse? Grab a sheet of Knock Knock’s Paper Voodoo! Simply fill in your desired outcome and rationale, how you’d like your spell delivered, and draw black or white pins in the recommended regions on your subject’s avatar.

Luke from Instrument Maniac bests his 91 instrument performance, with 20 additional ways to play music. This, the snippets connect into a single song rather than just playing the same lick repeatedly. For a real challenge, try naming as many instruments as you can with your eyes closed.

GlowDaddy’s Velcro glow-in-the-dark cards can be used alone or attached to the hook-and-loop panels found on tactical bags. Each is precision cut from HyperGlow luminescent material, which can glow brightly for hours after exposure to direct sunlight or a UV light source. The card measures 3.37″ L x 2.1″ W x 0.12″ thick.

This awesome new LEGO Creator series kit is just under 20 bucks and makes a great gift for photographers. The 261-piece set offers three building options: a 35 mm camera with film cartridges, a camcorder, or a mini television. The only thing wrong with it is that it won’t ship until right after Christmas.

We enjoy watching Drumeo’s series, where they ask musicians to create the drum track for a song they’ve never heard. In this session, they challenged Julliard jazz professor Ulysses Owens Jr. to perform the Nirvana song In Bloom. Ulysses’ interpretation both touches on the original and adds some new flourishes compared to Dave Grohl’s original.

Ken Block was one of the greatest rally drivers ever. Shortly before his tragic death, Block and team Hoonigan visited Mexico City, where they filmed what would become the final installment of the Electrikhana series. The footage has since been edited and released, bringing us one last ride along with Ken in his AWD electric Audi S1 Hoonitron.

In the animated mini-series Carol & The End of the World, Earth stands on the brink of mass extinction. While most people start living out their dreams before the end, one perfectly average woman finds herself lost in the chaos. From Rick & Morty and Community writer Dan Guterman. Coming to Netflix 12.15.2023.

Tools: A Visual Exploration of Implements and Devices in the Workshop is a wondrous guidebook filled with stories and explanations of 118 different kinds of tools. Author Theodore Gray and photographer Nick Mann teamed up to create the 256-page hardcover edition, which includes a pull-out Periodic Table of Tools poster.

Well, here’s a stunt you don’t see every day. Watch as Red Bull athlete Brian Grubb wakeskates across a Dubai rooftop swimming pool, goes flying off a ramp, then deploys a parachute for an epic BASE jump from 964 feet up. They used a customized drone to pull him across the pool since there was no room for a boat.

The 30-year dream of Dassai sake’s founder, Dassai Blue, is their first American brewery, now producing its first American-made sake. Dassai Blue is a premium Junmai Daiginjo sake made with Yamada Nishiki rice — the gold standard for sake — through traditional methods such as “tokomomi,” drying the rice by hand.

A little while back, Mark Rober engineered a tiny NERF gun using a compliant mechanism. The design has spawned numerous other builds, including this neat-looking blaster Matt Esltea made from wood. It’s not made from a single part like Rober’s NERF weapon, but it’s built with a similarly springy launching mechanism. It’s a beautiful build, but will it work?

Hot tubs are great, but the view you get while soaking remains static. If you want to see more of the world while you warm up, you need a hot tub boat. While you could spend thousands on one of Yacht Tubs’ professionally-built boats, David Rule shows us how it’s possible to build your own with stuff you can buy at the hardware store.

Netherlands-based musician Laszlo Buring likes to cover songs in the styles of different bands than initially sang them. His cover of The Beatles Come Together, melded with Dire Straits’ Walk of Life, gives the track a totally different and unexpected new sound. His Dire Straits version of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid is equally entertaining.

For the 12 days of Xmas — or any 12 days TBH — Shiner Beer’s Home For The Holidays pack offers a dozen festive faves, including Holiday Cheer (an old-world Dunkelweizen brewed with Texas peaches), Candied Pecan (a robust Porter) and Kosmos Reserve (a dry-hopped lager). Move quick. This super-limited supply won’t last.

This Amazon Prime series is based on the Fallout video games and promises action and drama on an epic scale. Set 200 years after a nuclear war, the wealthy inhabitants of fallout shelters are cast into the wasteland outside the safety of their vaults, where they encounter endless peril. From Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, creators of Westworld. Premieres 4.12.24.