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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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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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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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‘American Playboy,’ Amazon’s Hugh Hefner Biopic Trailer

Amazon's latest Original piece is a biopic about the one and only Hugh Hefner. Say what you will about Hef: Pioneer. Provocateur. Father. Bachelor. Rebel. Activist. Visionary. Playboy. Legend. The man is an icon that absolutely deserves to have his story told. Based on the production quality of this American…

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The Albert Clock Makes You Calculate the Time

Learning to tell the time is one of the first important life skills any of us tackles, but the Albert Clock makes the tried and true hands method pointless because it forces you to calculate the time. It's a digital clock that mounts easily to the wall, but actually telling…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Samsung’s New Frame TV Blends into Any Art Gallery

Samsung's newest line of televisions is focusing primarily on design, and no where is this better seen than with The Frame. It's a Samsung TV when on, but switches to a high-res picture frame when "Art Mode" is selected. In Art Mode, the user can choose between 100 images in…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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This Autonomous House Is Zombie Proof

Ukrainian startup PassivDom (Passive House Ukraine) has developed a line of autonomous, self-learning, mobile houses using 3D-printing techniques and advanced materials. Dubbed modulOne, each of the autonomous houses is designed and built to be fully functional off grid with solar panels, batteries, heating, water storage, purification and independent sewage. Whether…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Batch Puts a Twist on the Classic White Button-Down

The white button-down is a classic piece that should be in every man's closet in multiples. That said, it's high time someone brought a little personality to the wardrobe staple. Batch has taken the business casual shirt and given it just a bit of a twist. They've outfitted it with a…

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