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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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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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Fossil Graham Military Short Sleeve Shirt

Military-inspired has been a bit of a farce ever since the H2. In favor of suburban mom soccer appeal, Hummer trashed the ability to climb walls, withstand fire in warzones and have a heavy machine gun mounted in the roof. Fossil seems to be as upset by that as we…

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Cameras
Lomo LC-Wide Camera

Lomo photography is about a lot more than saturated colors and a circular focal point. Hipstamatic and Instagram mean you can take digital lomo photographs whenever you want (assuming you have an iPhone), but the quality just isn't there. Your new 5D Mark II takes fantastic pictures, but is it…

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Entertainment
1969 Dodge Charger General Lee

There are certain things that even if you had all the money in the world you wouldn't think you'd ever be able to acquire - The Mona Lisa, Hank Aaron's 755th home run ball, a manly Snuggie - but every once in a while one of these things becomes available to you. …

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Food
Cast Iron Grill Humidifier

As men, there are a few things that tend to be, exclusively, our realm: tire changing, lawn maintenance and grill management. Properly grilling steaks, burgers, other slabs of meat, encased meats, vegetables and anything else (try pizza and taquitos - seriously) isn't just a job, it's a duty. Thanks to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audio
Gemini FirstMix USB DJ Controller

Contrary to what you believed in college, being a DJ is much more difficult than just being a human iPod. You could just turn on crossfade, pop your collar and go pound PBRs, but eventually someone will turn on the Michael Bolton playlist. When that happens, you lose all music…

By Cooper Fleishman
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