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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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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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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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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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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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8 Travel Wallets That Won’t Make You Look Like a Tourist

Traveling internationally requires a lot of things. You need a passport. You need international currency. You need a grasp on the language of the place you're visiting. You need a travel wallet, a passport wallet that will conveniently hold all your important documents without making you a target. Here are…

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A Documentary About International Barbecue Culture

We don't think it's a stretch to say there's no better food than well barbecued meat. Someone taking the time to cook pork or beef or chicken to perfect succulent smoked deliciousness is an amazing culinary gift. That's the topic Barbecue explores, except this documentary blows the scale out to examine…

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Apollo 70 Airstream Mobile Bar

The Apollo 70 Airstream Land Yacht Mobile Bar has everything you need to throw a party people will be talking about for the rest of their lives. Built by a UK company for their bar and catering business, this Airstream has been turned from a live-in trailer basecamp to a…

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Delordinaire High House

Delordinaire is an architecture studio out of Paris and Montreal that builds ordinary buildings in exceptional ways. Take their High House in Quebec, for instance. Rather than build what many would consider a standard winter chalet on the ground with views of the Mont Saint Anne, Delordinaire utilized elevated stilt…

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The Analogue Nt Mini Plays All Your Old Nintendo Games

Forget all those plug n' play "retro" video game systems with only a handful of classic titles that always seem to appear on store shelves around the holidays. The Analogue Nt Mini is a modernized NES. The revamped Nintendo Entertainment System was built from the ground up by Analogue to…

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