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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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8 New Apps You Should Know

Instead of wading through the massive amount of new app releases searching for a few diamonds in the rough, just let us be your guide. This is a collection of our favorite new apps for both iOS and Android for your downloading pleasure. Boomerang Mail If you're not already using the Boomerang…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The 10 Best Dystopian Movies

Whenever we’re feeling like this world can’t get any more ludicrous, there’s nothing like a good dystopian film to offer us some perspective. Post-apocalyptic nightmare, futuristic totalitarian takeover, environmental wasteland—it’s a genre fraught with diverse settings and futuristic extrapolations, but one thing is always constant: Those world’s are so much…

By Maxwell Barna
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Pictogram Vinyl Posters

At this point, it's safe to say that Viktor Hertz is one of our favorite working graphic designers. Between the last batch of Pictogram Music Posters, the Pictogram Rock Posters and Pictogram Movie Posters, the supremely talented Swedish designer has all but dominated our walls for as long as we…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Best Movies to Watch High

Pass on all the classic "stoner flicks" like Harold & Kumar, Half Baked and Fast Times at Ridgemont High that you've seen a million times in favor of something more cerebral and trippy. We, and hopefully you, have moved on from those stereotypes to something that'll take advantage of the fact…

By Cooper Fleishman
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10 New Books to Read This Fall

Whether you read on a tablet, Kindle, or still prefer the smell of a freshly cracked paperback, finding your next book is never easy. You could never read all the new novels, biographies, or nonfiction tomes released each week, so we’re here to help. These are a handful of the…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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