Skip to Content
Gear & Tech
Travel
Watches
Fashion
Lifestyle
Guides
steals

Get the Cool Material Newsletter

Insider recommendations, the best deals, and the most unique products & experiences, delivered right to your inbox.

Subcribe
Lifestyle Entertainment

Entertainment

Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
Entertainment
Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
By Beau Hayhoe
1
Entertainment
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
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
Entertainment
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

By Cool Material
1
Entertainment
The Art of Cocktail Conversation

58 questions for better conversations at your next party.

By Cool Material
Entertainment
If You Liked ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ You Need To Watch Michelle Yeoh’s Other Movies

Awards hype is rarely worth your time and bother. Even when pundits and PR machines pick the right nominees, they’re still wrong for treating them like race horses. For the 2022-23 season, the awards committees have outdone themselves by churning out a particularly oxymoronic narrative around the year’s most celebrated…

By Andy Crump
Magnificent-Warriors
Entertainment
Video Games That Are as Fun to Watch as They Are to Play

I don’t trust people when they say they like watching video games. I’ve tried that part of it, where I watch someone else play a game, and all I can think of is how badly they’re messing everything up and how differently I’d be playing and how wrong they are…

By Dillon McLaughlin
Games-That-Are-as-Fun-to-Watch-as-They-Are-to-Play
Entertainment
You Can Finally Build an A-Frame Cabin of Your Own With LEGO

Whether it's the proximity to nature, the rustic appeal, the simplicity of the design or the endless possibilities, the A-Frame cabin is something we've all thought about building at one point or another. We're not quite adventurous enough to build a cliff-hanging A-Frame cabin, and we don't yet have the…

By Cooper Fleishman
AFrame-1
Entertainment
If You Enjoy ‘The Last of Us’ Then You Need To Play This Other Post-Apocalypse Game

When everyone was first going on and on about the first Covid lockdown only lasting two weeks, I bought a PS4. I’ve read and watched enough on apocalyptic historical events to know that even fully functioning, politically healthy countries have insane difficulty in controlling new disease. Since the United States…

By Dillon McLaughlin
Days-Gone-Last-of-Us-1
Entertainment
‘The Flash’ Official Trailer

The DC Universe surely needs an adrenaline injection, and it looks like The Flash with troubled actor Ezra Miller might just be what the Marvel Universe rival needs. Helmed by Argentine director Andrés Muschietti, much of the story is based on the 2011 "Flashpoint" comic and the 2013 "The Flashpoint…

By Amos Kwon
Flash