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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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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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Middle Finger Candle

Flicking someone off. Flipping the bird. Giving the finger. There are many different ways to describe the gesture commonly associated with the phrases "fuck you" and/or "fuck off," but none are quite as satisfying as actually doing it. While it used to be relegated to jerks in cabs, assholes in…

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Garage iPhone App

There are countless ways to sell things on the Internet. Etsy, eBay, Craigslist, forums, the list goes on and on. There are also countless ways to take pictures of things with your phone. Instagram, Camera+, Seed, and this list goes on and on as well. Garage takes the ability to…

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MARLEY

Long before Snoop D-O-double G, re-branded himself Snoop L-I-O-N (nowhere near as catchy, for the record) and became the reincarnation of Bob Marley, there was the actual Bob Marley. Oscar-winning documentarian Kevin Macdonald got official rights to Marley's music, concert footage and his family and friends to create the definitive…

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VANMOOF 5.7 Bike

We dig the bikes VANMOOF makes so much that we don't mind saying such a goofy name every time someone asks us about them. The Dutch company recently unveiled their latest two wheeler and, needless to say, it's awesome. Sporting the classic minimal style you'd expect from a VANMOOF, the 5.7…

By Mike Newman
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Huckduck Lighting

If you've been obsessing over the current vintage-industrial design craze going around like we have, your life just got a whole lot easier. Rather than having to head to Home Depot / Lowes / Ace / Insert-Internet-Hardware-Store-Here to pick up electrical cord and sockets and lightbulbs, you can just pick…

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