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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

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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‘Waco’ Trailer

The standoff at the Waco compound is ripe for television adaptation. It has everything modern people love in a story, with the added benefit of being true. If you don't know the story, here's a quick primer. David Koresh founded his own religious cult and kept his followers captive on…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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‘Ozark’ Is the Best Show You’re Not Watching

Netflix spent a whopping $6 billion on content this year, according to its CEO Reed Hastings, and it’s starting to show. They’ve given us new original shows like House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Narcos, 13 Reasons Why, Chef’s Table, Stranger Things, and a ton of others—and they…

By Maxwell Barna
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The Shows We’re Most Excited for This Fall

Fall is here, which means there’s a ton of new TV premiering, all of it vying for the public’s attention. And to the credit of whoever’s approving all these new shows, a lot of the series premiering this season have us excited. There are enough crime dramas, sitcoms, Netflix and…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Ballpoint Pen Portraits on Vintage Maps and Stationary

You'd never know by looking at his ballpoint pen portraits on vintage maps and stationary, but London-based artist Mark Powell originally enrolled in art school purely by accident. After years of everything from having nowhere to live to a course tutor telling him he was a terrible artist, he graduated…

By Cooper Fleishman
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‘The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)’ Official Trailer

We're always up for a good family comedy/drama and The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) doesn't look like it's going to disappoint. The cast they've put together is an unexpected amalgam of different genres and eras, with Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Emma Thompson, Elizabeth Marvel, and Dustin Hoffman rounding out the…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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