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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
Features
The Top 10 Cigars of the Year, According to Cigar Aficionado

Cigar Aficionado writers and reviewers enjoyed their fair share of good cigars this past year. To finish 2016 off, they looked back over the 1,000 cigars they smoked in an attempt to discover the 25 best. This is the list they came up with. Visit Cigar Aficionado to see notes on each of the cigars…

By Mike Newman
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2016 Porsche 911 R Steve McQueen Tribute

A Porsche 911 in any style or option package is a car that deserves to be appreciated, but few are as exquisite as this 2016 Porsche 911 R Steve McQueen Tribute. With 500 bhp, a 3,996 cc DOHC six-cylinder engine, front and rear independent suspension and four wheel carbon ceramic…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Death Machines of London Moto Guzzi Airtail

Death Machines of London (DMOL) is no stranger to ridiculously gorgeous ride-able pieces of art, but this new Moto Guzzi Airtail might blow their Hunter S. Thompson creation out of the water in terms of overall coolness. Built from a 1981 Moto Guzzi Lemans MK2 that was forensically inspected, restored…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
Our 10 Favorite New Beers of 2016

In case you weren't paying attention, 2016 required some heavy drinking. Luckily, we were happy to oblige. We consumed our fair share of good beers around the Cool Material office this year. We knocked back IPAs, stouts, dry-hopped pale ales conditioned on fresh fruit purees, and many more. Some of it was…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
Blu Dot x Handsome Cycles Bike

Blu Dot, purveyor of all things modern in the world of furniture, teamed up with Handsome Cycles, the Minneapolis cyclery dedicated to gorgeous two-wheeled transportation, to create this Blu Dot x Handsome Cycles bike. The stripped down, lean and clean single speed is stylistically influenced by café racers and outfitted with…

By Cooper Fleishman
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