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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
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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“Stranger Things” Season 2 Super Bowl Trailer

When the first season of Stranger Things came out, it dominated our office talk for a good long while.  Most of us binged it in about three days, then spent multiple weeks talking amongst ourselves about our favorite characters, theories, and episodes while trying to get the few stubborn holdouts to just…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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What to Watch This Weekend

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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Budweiser’s 2017 Super Bowl Commercial

Our big thing with Anheuser-Busch/Budweiser has always been to own its immigrant background. We'd much rather the beer cop to being owned by Belgians and started by a German than have them bafflingly attempt to declare themselves America's beer. Besides, isn't the story of an immigrant's struggle to realize their…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The 10 Best New Things Coming to Netflix in February

February is going to be a pretty tough month for Netflix subscribers, as we’re losing quite a few of our favorite titles. Trainspotting, Friday, Black Hawk Down, The Kite Runner, Clerks, There Will Be Blood, and *shudder* Bratz: Babyz: The Movie are among just a few of the casualties this…

By Maxwell Barna
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The 9 Best Things Coming to Amazon Prime Video This Month

The Amazon Prime Video catalog is growing by the month, and not only because a ton of old movies are jumping into the public domain. They’re getting their hands on Oscar and Emmy winners, along with an ever increasing selection of original programming. If you don’t have Amazon, now may…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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