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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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The Cool Shop
What We're Buying
The Cool Shop

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

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What We're Buying
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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The Camera Strap Necktie

There comes a point in every wedding when we're a few Old-Fashioneds in and we decide to undo our tie and proceed to tear it up on the dance floor (and by "tear it up on the dance floor," we mean pass out in the corner). Okay, while we watch ourselves…

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Entertainment
Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence

Everything has a beginning. Unfortunately, when it comes to graffiti, that jumping off point is a little hard to nail down. While researching his book, “The History of American Graffiti,” Roger Gastman became intrigued with the actual origin story of the modern graffiti movement. The film traces the roots of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Contests & Give-Aways
GIVEAWAY: Linus Limited Edition 3-Speed Bike (CLOSED)

As with any ride we purchase, we want our bike to be as stylish as it is functional. When we make that kind of investment, we plan on riding the thing into the ground. That means years of people seeing us and, if we don't choose wisely, years of embarrassment.…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
Cardboard Bike Project

What are you doing with all those empty cardboard boxes you have strewn across your garage floor? Probably breaking them down and tossing them on the curb every other Tuesday, right? Why not take a bit of inspiration from this vid and put those empties to good use. Building a…

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Tombox

There are plenty of ways to listen to your music when you’re not within arms’ reach of a wall outlet. Most of them don’t look, or perform, anywhere near as good as the ones from Tombox. The Germans take discarded loudspeakers and repurpose them as portable amplifiers. Each Tombox is…

By Cooper Fleishman
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