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Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act

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.

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The Case for Nashville as Your Next Golf Getaway
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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy
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The $1,200 Sneaker Giveaway ​

Win a pair of handcrafted Crown Northampton Yardley GAT sneakers, a matching cardholder, and a handmade shoe tree.

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What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

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7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop
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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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The $1,200 Sneaker Giveaway ​

Win a pair of handcrafted Crown Northampton Yardley GAT sneakers, a matching cardholder, and a handmade shoe tree.

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What We're Buying
The Cool Shop

What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

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7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop

For the beach, the lake, the trail, and wherever you like disappearing to on summer weekends.

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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A curated selection of our favorite gear

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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

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Wild Turkey’s New ‘Cheesy Gold Foil’ Release Is a Tribute To a Collector’s Classic

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Keep Exploring Take My Picture Tee

What started as a Facebook message between friends and a single red flag they brought on a road trip has grown into a full-fledged movement dubbed Keep Exploring. As you might imagine, the entire idea behind the company is to keep exploring, and their Take My Picture Tee is a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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HEX Re-Engineered Condom

Strawberry flavored. Glow in the dark. Ribbed for her pleasure. There are a lot of takes on the condom, but few—if any—actually offer any real improvement over the basic latex version released years ago. That's why LELO created HEX. HEX is a re-engineered condom that leverages the structural properties of connected…

By Mike Newman
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Whiskey Tumblers Worthy of Pappy

If you get your hands on some high-quality whiskey, you can’t sip it out of just anything. There’s no greater disrespect to Pappy and Glenlivet than pouring it into a receptacle that isn’t worthy of the craftsmanship that went into it. You need a well-made tumbler to get the most…

By Christopher Osburn
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Hobo Coins are Based on Depression Era Coin Carvings

During the Great Depression, the wandering unemployed found some artistic expression in carving new portraits and scenes into coinage, most popularly the Buffalo Nickel. Since then, genuine carved coins have become valuable pieces of US History and collectors aren't likely to want to part with them. Now, Chris Ovdiyenko has taken…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Google Search Hacks

Google search may very well be one of the most critically important inventions of all time. We don’t know about you, but we use it daily in our lives to answer all the questions we can’t, like “How spell bureaucracy?” or “How cook crystal meth?” Over the years, Google has…

By Maxwell Barna
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