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Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
Lifestyle
Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
By Beau Hayhoe
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Lifestyle
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
Lifestyle
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
The 9 Most Beautiful Golf Holes in Mexico The 9 Most Beautiful Golf Holes in Mexico
Lifestyle
The 9 Most Beautiful Golf Holes in Mexico

From jungle-lined fairways to greens hanging over the Sea of Cortez, consider this our fantasy nine-hole round through Mexico.

By Cool Material
Entertainment
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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Food
These Stump Glasses are Made from an Oak Branch Mold

We've seen drinkware made from actual wood before and thought, "Huh, that looks cool, but there's no way I'm ever drinking out of it." Stump Glasses are a better solution. The glasses in the cocktail set—two tumblers and a larger cocktail number—were made using a mold of an actual oak…

By Mike Newman
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Alfa Romeo C18 Concept

Antonio Paglia is an architect and designer working out of Milan who created an Alfa Romeo Concept that's unbelievable. If the two-tone Alfa Romeo C18 Concept that he created looks like it's straight out of the sketchbook of a design school student specializing in autos that's because Paglia teaches that class at…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Reasons You Should Quit Social Media, According to Science

We all have those moments. You’re lying in bed, staring at your phone, getting angry at some political rant, and you think to yourself: “Why am I doing this? Why do I even care? Who are these people? This stupid screen is giving me a headache. Damn you, Zuckerberg!” But…

By Maxwell Barna
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Transportation
Own the Motorcycle That Was the Fastest in the World in 1973

E.J. Potter is a notorious tinkerer, racer and all-around lunatic that came to be known as the "Michigan Madman" because he liked to put Chevy V8 engines into motorcycle frames. One of his creations, the 1971 EJ Potter Chevrolet V8 "Widowmaker" Dragbike, recently went up for auction at Bonhams. It…

By Cooper Fleishman
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