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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
Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
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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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A Documentary About International Barbecue Culture

We don't think it's a stretch to say there's no better food than well barbecued meat. Someone taking the time to cook pork or beef or chicken to perfect succulent smoked deliciousness is an amazing culinary gift. That's the topic Barbecue explores, except this documentary blows the scale out to examine…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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What to Watch This Weekend: You Are Wanted

With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend, a series in which we give you our pick for the best new show or…

By Mike Newman
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Heinz Is Using Don Draper’s “Pass the Heinz” Ads

Heinz has finally approved Don Draper's Pass the Heinz ads from Mad Men. The original ads that his clients at Heinz weren't in any way pleased with featured close-ups of fries, a cheeseburger and a slice a steak all just waiting for a squirt of ketchup with the simple tagline…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures

Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 is the untold story of the secret life of one of history's literary icons. And if there was anyone capable of writing a book about the secret adventures of one of America's greatest writers, it's Nicholas Reynolds. PhD from Oxford. U.S.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Edgar Wright is Finally Back with ‘Baby Driver’

There's been a bit of a lull in Edgar Wright's career since his ill-fated but apparently glorious Ant-Man script. The last movie he made was The World's End back in 2013 when he closed out his Cornetto Trilogy. Four years later and he's finally reemerged with Baby Driver, a movie about a young…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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