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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
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What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary

Consider this your homework before You Can See Everything arrives October 16.

By Lanny Fuller
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Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act

Inside FRET12, the Chicago shop turning rock ’n’ roll culture into clothes, art, live sessions, beer, and more.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Our Go-to Albums for Hosting

7 albums that set the mood so you can worry about the food and whether you have enough ice.

By Cool Material
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Risko Modular Drawing Desk

When it comes to the desk in your home or office, a lot of the requirements and features are going to depend on what you're using it for. If you're an artist, the Risko Modular Drawing Desk is probably as close to the perfect desk as you'll get. Conceived of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Best Slow TV to Help You Unwind

Slow TV is a wildly successful phenomenon in its home country of Norway and it’s something we can totally see exploding in popularity here in the states. Essentially, Norwegian television crews strap cameras to various forms of transportation or insert them into activities and record hours-long programs. There’s no plot,…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The 25 Best PS4 Games of All Time

The PS4 is enjoying some time in the spotlight. From towering sales figures to a staggering library of exclusives, both past and upcoming, the PlayStation is to gaming consoles what chinos are to pants, apparently. Whether it's the PS4 base model or the beefy PS4 Pro upgrade, Sony's basically a runaway…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Photographer Reuben Wu Uses Drones to Light Mountainous Landscapes

Throughout his career, Chicago-based photographer Reuben Wu has traveled the globe taking magical pictures of everything from solar farms to the open road. In his latest project, Lux Noctis, Reuben Wu uses drones to light mountainous landscapes in ways that make them seem alien and and untouched. The award-winning series…

By Cooper Fleishman
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7 Documentaries That Will Piss You Off

Sometimes documentaries are meant to inspire us; sometimes they’re meant to excite us. Yet, other times, they’re meant to make us angry. They’re meant to devastate us and alter us in ways that we can’t undo, and maybe push us to take action. They smack us like a tidal wave and…

By Maxwell Barna
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