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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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What to Watch This Weekend: Burning Sands

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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Pitmaster: Recipes, Techniques, and Barbecue Wisdom

Whether you're interested in cooking the barbecue basics like Memphis-style ribs or the more advanced like smoking a whole hog North Carolina style, Andy Husbands and Chris Hart's latest tome, Pitmaster, is the perfect reference material. Pitmaster: Recipes, Techniques, and Barbecue Wisdom explores barbecue through a lens of regional restaurant traditions…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Metal Skull Microphones

In this age of podcasting, everyone should have access to a high quality microphone. Not only that, but it should be something customized to recorder's tastes. If those tastes are the straightforward microphones we've been using forever, that's fine. But also know you could be podcasting into the back of…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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‘Missing Richard Simmons’ Is the Best Podcast You’re Not Listening To

Richard Simmons is a hard person to forget. The volume of his voice is matched only by the volume of his clothing, and there was a period of time—the 80s and 90s, mostly—when he brought all of that to talk shows, television programs, and movies on a regular basis. He's bright.…

By Mike Newman
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‘Surf Shacks’ Illustrates How Surfers Live

From New York City apartments and tiny Hawaiian huts, to cabins nestled in the woods and converted buses, many humble abodes fall under the general label "surf shack." Surf Shacks: An Eclectic Compilation of Creative Surfer's Homes from Coast to Coast and Overseas is Gestalten's latest tome that chronicles and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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