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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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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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The Sora Electric Motorcycle

They say if you do what you love you'll never work a day in your life. That's a load of crap. Ultimately you're just going to spend more sleepless nights making sure every last detail is perfect. Case in point, the engineers at Lito Green Motion. Two long years of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Arrogant Bastard Ale Burning Trinity of Hot Sauces

There are only two things guaranteed to turn any culinary experience from good to awesome, beer and hot sauce. On its own, beer does a damn fine job of making just about anything more enjoyable. Unfortunately, drowning your tacos, chinese food and/or chili in it isn't just messy, it's frowned…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audio
Aluminium Telecaster Electric Guitar

We like things inspired by winners.  That's why Air Jordan's sell like crazy but Air Brian Scalabrine's never quite made it off the cutting room floor.  Base something off a Mercedes Silver Arrow - even if it is as vastly different as a guitar - and we're already on-board.  This…

By Mike Newman
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Tech
BeerStat App

It's probably not much of a secret that we enjoy beer.  Heck, we've featured ways to transport a sixer on your bike, how you can wash yourself with soap made of beer and more bottle openers than you could even fit in your kitchen.  We're not even 100% sure if this isn't the first sign…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Stanley Kubrick: Limited Edition Collection on Blu-Ray

Starting off this post with, "If you're a fan of Stanley Kubrick . . ."  would be insanely pointless seeing as how the chances that you don't like at least one of the director's movies is so minuscule that they would not even register on some sort of money-wasting worldwide…

By Mike Newman
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