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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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Treasure Wheels

Put treasure in the name of anything and the 8 year old still inside of all of us is immediately intrigued. If the product in question just so happens to be practical and also cost less than $50 it's pretty much a guaranteed winner. This is the case with Treasure…

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Diederick Kraaijeveld’s Reclaimed Relief Art

Walkabouts frequently lead to found treasures. Images of native populations (we're talking girls obviously), tiny trinkets and fun souvenirs are commonplace, but nothing like what Diederick Kraaijeveld does with what he finds in Holland. Using reclaimed, genuine wood that he scavenges on field trips, Kraaijeveld creates fantastic Reclaimed Relief Collages…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Music Beta by Google

We turn to Google for a lot of our online needs - email, maps of backyards and at times because we're feeling lucky.  Now, from the company that offers its employees free haircuts (probably not the most important thing about them) comes Music Beta.  The long talked about project is…

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Adidas ObyO Kazuki White Plants

It shouldn't come as a shock to you that there's another sneaker collaboration between a well known brand and a designer you've probably never heard of with a ridiculous, nonsensical name. Confusing as these things are, the amount we like them generally tends to be directly proportional to their ludicrousness.…

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Beatty Light

The idea of a guy firing a gun at some tin cans evokes images of overalls, pieces of hay propped between lips like long ashy cigarettes and the frequent yelling of the word "boy."  Assuming we ever found those tin cans by chance off some dirt road, chances are we wouldn't think,…

By Mike Newman
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