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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
By Cool Material
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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This Poster Displays the History of Hip-Hop

Earlier this year, Dorothy, a UK-based conceptual print shop, released a clever history of alternative music print that displayed alternative rock knowledge as if it were a circuit board from an early transistor radio. That was great if you were down with The Smiths, The Strokes, and other bands that start with…

By Mike Newman
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There’s a ‘Stranger Things’ Eggo Card Game Coming Out

Eleven, the psychokinetic hero of Stranger Things, has a strange thing for Eggo waffles. Netflix and Hasbro took that idea and came up with a clever—albeit, very odd—promotional item, the Stranger Things: Eggo Card Game. The game will be released sometime this fall and will retail for $15. Outside of that,…

By Mike Newman
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The Best Shower Speakers to Listen While You Wash

We understand that every man reading this has at least one shower jam that they like to get down to, and sing along with, while they're rubbing themselves down with the latest and greatest in the world of body wash. We're not going to critique your choice of music because…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fan-Made Movie Posters Better than the Originals

The key to a great movie poster is capturing the atmosphere of the film. Those ensemble posters you see on blockbusters might satisfy actors’ agents, but for the audience, we miss out on crucial details, like genre, plot, and sometimes even the title. When we look at a poster, we…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Limited Edition Ai Weiwei Works for Sale on eBay

Ai Weiwei, the world-renowned artist and activist, has teamed up with the Public Art Fund, New York City's premier presenter of contemporary outdoor art, to put on a unique, 300+ site exhibition this fall that will span all five boroughs. The exhibition is called "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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