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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
Transportation
Honda Self-Balancing Motorcycle

There have been quite a few great reveals at CES this year, but Honda unveiled a self-balancing motorcycle and associated piece of tech that blows almost everything else away. Honda's "Riding Assist" technology was derived from the Asimo robot and the Uni-Cub personal transporter and, in essence, uses the wheels…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The Movies in 2017 We’re Most Excited For

Cinema has a long road ahead of it if movies are going to reassert themselves as the most prestigious screen-based viewing medium. TV stole the title when no one was looking and doesn’t seem to be keen on relinquishing its new found glory. This past year didn’t do a whole…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Transportation
This Defender Has a Corvette Stingray Engine in It

East Coast Defender making any Land Rover even more badass is nothing new, but Project Pedigree is different because it's powered by a Corvette engine. Some of you might consider that sacrilegious, but we're totally on board with the 6.2L Corvette Stingray LS3 V8 outputting 430hp and the BM 6L60…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
2016’s Best TV Shows You Didn’t Watch

Normally, if a full year went by and we’d missed some shows, we’d assume they simply weren’t worth our attention and there was a reason they never came up. Now, there’s just too much good TV out there for us to keep up with. Great seasons of shows come and…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Features
8 Breweries to Watch in 2017

These days, it seems anyone with some cash and an interest in brewing wants to open a brewery. Often this leads to average homebrew being poured into growlers and pint glasses around the country. Not always, though. Sometimes these little upstarts come out of the gates with liquid gold. A secret doesn't…

By Mike Newman
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