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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.

The Cool Shop
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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The best deals and offers on the web

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A curated selection of our favorite gear

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Our team’s top picks

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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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What We're Buying

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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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Quicksilver Customized Boardshorts

Here's the list of swimwear a guy can wear on the beach in descending order of acceptability:  Boardshorts, lined swim trunks, regular shorts because you forgot your bathing suit, speedos, speedo thongs (yeah they exist).  After stumbling upon this new offering from Quicksilver we may have to bump regular boardshorts to number…

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Drinks
Goldman Leather Koozie

We're going to go out on a limb and say that you've never actually purchased a Koozie.  This is not to say that you don't have a koozie or two, but we're guessing you acquired them like you acquired most of your pens - through osmosis (and by osmosis we…

By Mike Newman
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Videos
Danny Macaskill – Industrial Revolution

Forget any smooth black ramps and chrome-polished rails you'd see at some X Games competition, Danny Macaskill trades all that in for some rusted out country-side. The result makes all the bike tricks that normally just amaze us somehow become a thing of art.

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Audio
Nixon The TPS Speaker

Before you read the name and immediately move on, this speaker has nothing to do with Swingline staplers, TPS reports or bosses that don't give a shit - unless you want to put all of that on the back burner by blaring death metal. Nixon understands your need to constantly…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The Internet is a Playground

Everyone has seen something from David Thorne of 27b/6 fame, they just don't know it. The emails about designing a poster for a missing cat that your mother-in-law forwarded you (true story)? Missing Missy by Thorne. Logo design with pie charts for peer to peer networking? Another hilarious Thorne piece.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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