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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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Wear This: Dappered

Each week, we turn to one of our favorite style bloggers or men’s fashion insiders to put together a solid outfit. J. Crew factory Oxford Cloth Blazer - $168 1901 Grey Suede Shoes - $100 1901 Slim Fit Check Shirt - $50 Banana Republic Belt - $40 FormFunctionForm Button Stud…

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Twitter #Music

After hearing buzz for a bit now, Twitter officially released their music app today. Twitter #Music (really, a hashtag in the name?) pulls tunes from Spotify, iTunes, and Rdio, and is set on helping users discover music they'll love. Organized in a few simple pages, you can swipe through popular…

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Best Made Co. Light Waxed Cruiser

Opening the inbox to find the weekly Best Made Co. email newsletter is one of the highlights of our week. There's never a shortage of cool, innovative, downright stylish products that we want to own... even if we don't have any business having a huge axe or camp stool outside…

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Nike PHOTOiD

There are a ton of ways you can display your Instagram shots around your home. You can turn them into prints, stickers, magnets, and plenty of other pieces of art, but you've no doubt been thinking, "That's great, but how do I wear my Instagram photos??" Well, Nike's got you…

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Mailbox for iPhone

We can't remember a more buzzed about app that had nothing to do with flinging feathered animals or playing some easily cheat-able form of Scrabble. Mailbox for iPhone had a waiting list longer than a Friday night at The Cheesecake Factory for quite sometime. Now it's available to everyone, and…

By Mike Newman
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