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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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Lifestyle
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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Soda Shampoos

Dumping a liter of soda on your head sounds like something you'd do at a wild college party after a night of Jagerbombs and not as part of your daily morning ritual (unless you happened to be John Blutarsky then it would oddly make sense).  If you're sick of shampoos…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Eat Like A Man: The Only Cookbook A Man Will Ever Need

There are but a few things in life that man only needs one of: a quality hammer, a favorite pair of jeans, a reliable winter coat and a cookbook. You're not going to call Triple-A to change your flat, so why rely on someone else to give you the proper…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audio
JBL On Air Wireless

If you're music collection is anything like ours, it's a mess. Four generations of iPods, a few iPhones, some USB drives and computers in more than one location make it more than a little bit difficult to have access to all of our music all of the time. Once you…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Swans S3W HiVi Multimedia Speaker System

Traveling with your laptop is no longer a big deal.  They've become lighter and more streamlined and padded bags have flooded the marketplace, many of which we've featured here.  That's all good when you're just going to Starbucks to type out a few documents and run an iTunes shuffle with…

By Mike Newman
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Woodsman Axe Coffee Table

While you might store an axe inside your home you're probably not using it in there.  Chopping firewood in the living room is a pretty poor idea unless you want your hardwood floors to look like a sumo wrestler with ice skates walked across them.  A far better indoor axe idea would be…

By Mike Newman
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