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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 10 Best New Things on Netflix This Month

September is another great month for Netflix subscribers. The world’s preeminent streaming service is easing up on the original feature films and heavy-hitter series this month (you've got Luke Cage, but we're skeptical after the trailer), but there are some real classics, some solid original programming, and a few promising…

By Maxwell Barna
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Transportation
Pan Meka Motorcycle

Pan Speed Shop's new Meka motorcycle build might be based on a classic BMW K1200S, but you'd have a hard time figuring that out based on what it looks like now. Starting with that stripped away BMW, Pan created the apocalyptic behemoth Meka you see before you. Plastic was deleted…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Fuego Box Hot Sauces Come With Flavor, Not Crying

It's hard to be discerning about hot sauces, since they seem to come in two varieties. Generic mild and organ-destroying pepper volcano. But Fuego Boxes insists that you can discover new hot sauces without turning into a snot-spewing tear-hose.  They're a subscription service that delivers nuanced, flavorful hot sauces, showcasing flavor and…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Features
The 10 Best Goses to Drink Before the End of Summer (Also, What the Hell is a ‘Gose’?)

What’s 1,000 years old is new again as the gose style is seizing its moment in the sun. A gose (pronounced goes-uh) is a low-ABV German beer style made with malted wheat and spiced with coriander. It dates back to the 10th century, when it took its name from the…

By Colin Joliat
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Transportation
The Cool Material Bike Build: The Project and the Plan

A vintage motorcycle is best enjoyed with a pair of grease-stained hands on the bars. Actually putting in the work to get an old bike up and running is far more rewarding than dropping an exorbitant amount of cash on one spiffed up for you. It’s about the pride that…

By Matt Faisetty
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