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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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The Best Books You Didn’t Read in 2017

We don’t know exactly how many books were published last year, but you can bet it was more than any reasonable human can be expected to read. Since we’re also human, we didn’t get to read them all, but of the ones we did, we have some we liked more…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The 11 Best Documentary Films of 2017

While 2017 was an excellent year for the cinema, with box office hits like Dunkirk, Get Out, Wonder Woman, Baby Driver, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, there were some incredible documentaries released at the same time. We decided to give our readers a closer look at what we feel…

By Maxwell Barna
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The 10 Best Titles Coming to Netflix This January

Netflix is coming out swinging in January. Subscribers can look forward to a ton of great classics and new blockbusters, along with some really great Original content. In fact, there’s so much going on this month it was hard for us to settle on just 10 picks. We know, our…

By Maxwell Barna
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The 9 Best Titles Coming to Amazon Prime in January

What we love about Amazon Prime Streaming is that we never really know what to expect on the first of the month. Sometimes it’s filled with excellent original content, sometimes it’s all about the indie hits, and still other times we’re looking down the barrel of some great blockbusters. This…

By Maxwell Barna
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Be Kind Online Is Modeled After WPA Posters of the 1930s

The poster you see here started over a few beers. Designers Michael Buchino and BT Livermore wanted to create a print that addressed a modern subject but depicted it in a style reminiscent of WPA (Work Projects Administration) posters from the 1930s and 1940s. Not only did they want to…

By Mike Newman
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