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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 Weirdest Alcohol Money Can Buy

The consumption of alcohol is about as straightforward as human activities can get. You get alcohol and put it in your body. Do that six or seven times and you’ve participated in an activity older than literacy. Alcohol delivering liquids are less straightforward. Different cultures ferment different things. For most…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Entertainment
Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook

Mobb Deep's Albert "Prodigy" Johnson joins Gustavo "Goose" Alvarez on the list of renowned prison cooks/authors with the release of Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook. The follow up to Prodigy's My Infamous Life, also co-written by critically-acclaimed journalist and author Kathy Iandoli, has plenty of recipes that were developed…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Cool Material Bike Build: The Reveal

About a month ago, we had this idea of building an office bike, a motorcycle we could all use for quick trips around town. It was a pipe dream, really. We needed time and money, so we dropped the idea. Then we got to talking with Motorcycle Mechanics Institute, and…

By Matt Faisetty
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Features
F*ck Pumpkin: 8 New Beers Actually Worth Drinking This Fall

We have a long-standing dislike for pumpkin beers. (Here's the proof.) Well, the good news for pumpkin haters is the majority of drinkers are starting to agree, as seen by a huge cut in production of the spiced mess of a drink. This free shelf space means more real estate for the beers…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
The Vuhl 05 Is Mexico’s First Supercar

Lotus, KTM and Caterham aren't the only ones making open cockpit rides you can slide into anymore. Mexico is getting in on the game with their first supercar, the Vuhl 05. The brainchild of two industrial designer brothers with a father who spent over three decades in the racing scene, Vuhl—the name…

By Cooper Fleishman
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