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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
Lifestyle
Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Lifestyle
How to Serve Great Cocktails Without Missing Your Own Party

World-class spirits, classic cocktails, and no time spent shaking and stirring.

By Cool Material
What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
Lifestyle
What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary

Consider this your homework before You Can See Everything arrives October 16.

By Lanny Fuller
Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
Lifestyle
Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act

Inside FRET12, the Chicago shop turning rock ’n’ roll culture into clothes, art, live sessions, beer, and more.

By Beau Hayhoe
Entertainment
Homemade Sausage Teaches You to Make Sausage at Home

We live in an age where it’s not all that difficult, regardless of where you live, to head to the local butcher to pick up awesome meats that you probably wouldn’t have access to otherwise. The handmade sausages you can get are some of the best you’ll eat, but what…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Dave Pollot’s Pop Culture Thrift Store Art

Dave Pollot is a NY-based artist that, like most of us, grew up painting on everything he could find. Unlike us, Pollot is actually really talented, so we doubt his parents yelled at him for his creations (ours were really just scribbles on the walls). Fast forward a bunch of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
The Retro Arcade of the Future

There's just something about the experience of finishing an opponent with a well-placed hadouken or dragon punch in person, at an arcade console that can never be matched by winning a match of the latest first-person shooter while people scream in your ears and call you an idiot. The Polycade…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Serious Pig Snackingham Meats Prevent Hangovers

If you're like us, you have a drink of choice. If you have a drink of choice, you've also had a hangover. The guys at London-based charcuterie Serious Pig had a revelation (the next day, at the pub, obviously) that they could create a hangover-preventing meat snack. Hangover Cured uses…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Anatomy in Black Coffee Table Book

The human body is a fantastically complex machine that still has plenty of mysteries to unlock, but we know enough things about human anatomy to have some really cool books about it. Few, if any, of them look anywhere near as good as Anatomy in Black. Using double page spreads…

By Cooper Fleishman
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