Five of our favorite whiskeys coming out this month include releases from The Dalmore, Compass Box, Hatozaki and more. Plus: The Middle East’s glitzy City of Gold is more than just luxurious shopping and lounging.

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The Best New Whiskeys to Drink This June

Some days, you want to sip a 55-year-old Scotch (especially if you're not paying). Other times? Maybe a bourbon aged in ex-tequila casks or vintage Armagnac barrels. Or, why not, a cask-strength blended whisky inspired by Star Trek. We tasted those and a lot more in our monthly guide to the best new whiskeys.

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Dubai Becomes a Different Destination When You Go on Bike

BY ERIK TRINIDAD

It was still dark when I arrived at a parking lot in Dubai’s Meydan district just before dawn and heard the familiar Muslim call to prayer coming from the speakers of a distant minaret. As the resonance of the age-old chants filled the sky, I noticed more and more individuals coming from their cars, gradually assembling at the same spot — only it was not for any religious reason.

Here, at Dubai’s rendezvous point for urban cycling, away from the glittering skyscrapers and luxury hotels of glossy magazine spreads, the local, Spandex-clad cycling community gathered with their bicycles for another type of daily pre-dawn ritual: to bike the 8.4 km (5.2 mile) Nad Al Sheba track (or the DxBike loop), multiple times until after the sunrise — and all before heading to the office.

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Tinder Is Testing Out a New Height Filter

In the latest dating app news: Tinder, the app where aspirations of finding a long-term partner go to die, is testing out a new height filter that will allow women to filter out men who aren’t tall enough for them.

It’s not available to free users yet; only those who subscribe to Tinder Gold and Tinder Premium will be able to use it. The internet is, of course, up in arms about it, but this pay-for-it height filter model has actually already been implemented in several other dating apps already, like Bumble and Hinge.