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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
Home
FamousBrick Makes All Your Favorite Tech Giants Lego People

Lego has really stepped up its game in terms of fictional characters, but they've left the characters of the nonfiction world sadly behind. Sure, it's great to have Batman and Indiana Jones fly the Millennium Falcon together, but what if we want to have little yellow Steve Jobs and little…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Food
Make $12,000 Traveling the US and Drinking Beer

World of Beer is back with another Drink It Internship that will give you the opportunity to make $12,000 traveling the US and drinking beer. If you've never visited a World of Beer location, the selection of craft beers, food, and the staff's expansive knowledge show why the name works.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Halo is the World’s First Fully Compostable Coffee Pod

Coffee pods haven't exactly been the greatest thing for the environment. It would seem everyone prioritizes their morning buzz over environmentally sustainable products. Everyone except Nils Leonard. Leonard, previously chief creative officer of renowned advertising firm Grey London, recently launched Halo, the first completely compostable coffee pod company. Along with…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Transportation
Mad Max Cars Without the Dirt

John Platt is a unit stills photographer with three decades of film industry work that got the opportunity to shoot all the vehicles (aka the real stars of the show) from Mad Max: Fury Road before they got filthy. "Before the Dirt - The Cars of Mad Max: Fury Road"…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
What to Drink This Weekend: The Tommy Gun

The Tommy Gun was inspired by the fall/winter harvests in New York State. It’s made up of pear liqueur, bitters, Connemara, lemon juice, cane syrup, cardamaro, rye and Armagnac. The flavors of apple and pear combine with walnut to give it a rich, warming flavor. “We used spirits that compliment…

By Christopher Osburn
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