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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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INK Plainbody Car Prints

London-based design studio INK is helping you display your love of the automobile with the Plainbody series of prints, each of which highlights a single race car in all its basic beauty. The cars are all pictured in white without any excessive detail or loud design surrounding them. That means…

By Mike Newman
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How to Improve Your Mobile Photography in 2018

Smartphones have taken the fine art of photography and put it in the hands of anyone willing to hone their skills. Unfortunately for a lot of us, developing those skills could take a long time—time we really just don’t have in between careers, personal relationships, and figuring out which new…

By Maxwell Barna
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Nintendo Labo DIY Kits

With its detachable controllers and go anywhere gameplay, it's hard to believe the Nintendo Switch had any more tricks up its sleeve, but it does. Enter Nintendo Labo, the collection of DIY building kits that are part learning tool, part toy and a whole lot of fun. Like the "some…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Best Audiobooks for People Who Hate Reading

Audiobooks are podcasts with plots. They were podcasts before there were podcasts (as was talk radio). In fact, most of the time, they’re better than podcasts. You can’t start a audiobook on a whim, so right there you cut out most of the chaff. If you’ve been wanting to get…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Vestaboard Is a Connected Split-Flap Display For Your Home

There's something charming about the split-flap train displays throughout Europe and parts of the U.S. The clacking shuffle of tiles is a bizarre pleasure to the ears. Now you can bring a little of that into your home with Vestaboard, a mobile device-connected display that you can use for messages…

By Mike Newman
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