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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
8 Award-Winning Rib Recipes

Ladies and gentlemen, grilling season is upon us. If you know us, you know that we consider grilling a sacred piece of American culture—just like boxing, baseball, and blowing shit up. Most of those things are pretty easy to do. But being able to throw down a solid rack of ribs? Well, that’s a…

By Maxwell Barna
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Features
8 Recipes That Will Teach You How to Grill With Beer

Chicken or brats. Fish tacos or New York strips. It doesn't matter what you plan on grilling, you can probably incorporate beer. When you love beer and grilling as much as we know you do, it makes perfect sense to combine the two outside of just having a beverage in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Folded Vessel Storage Unit

Designed by Chen Chen & Kai Williams for Brooklyn-based design house Good Thing, Folded Vessel is a multi-purpose storage unit / rack unlike most other options on the market. Folded Vessel is made in Pennsylvania and assembles to form an open cube with legs that's perfectly sized to store and display…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Tiny Arcade Fits in the Palm of Your Hand

Tiny Arcade, produced by open source hardware company TinyCircuits out of Ohio, is producing retro arcade cabinets that are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Powered by a 32-bit ARM processor and housed in an acrylic, wood or 3D-printed enclosure, Tiny Arcade lets you play games…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Late, Boozy Nights in Paris with Rémy Martin

If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's this: When a dude sends you an email at 9:00 on a Wednesday morning asking if you'd like to go to Paris (and they aren't a Nigerian prince trying to wire you money), you take it—no questions asked. The crew at…

By Maxwell Barna
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