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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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Behind Simple Ingenuity

This post is brought to you by Saab. At Saab, we believe in independent thinking. It’s in everything we do. Learn more here. Some of the greatest inventions of the modern era--the microprocessor, the internal combustion engine, Bloody Marys--took years of development and contain complex systems and parts working in…

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SeaVees 1267 3 Eye Chukka

Given the choice, we'd probably never be wearing anything other than boxers and a t-shirt. We love the collection of shoes we've been assembling since we had a budget for shoes - and we love looking good - but comfort is a higher priority in our book. SeaVees is like…

By Cooper Fleishman
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HipstaCase 100

With long-lost items like Bonkers and Giggles cookies, sometimes we forget the awesomeness the 80's had to offer. Like the plastic cameras that turned everyone into David LaChapelle. Whether you were taking pictures of your G.I. Joe's staging a coup on a group of unsuspecting Barbie Dolls or were trying to take more artistic…

By Mike Newman
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Clae Kennedy Black Mesh

When it comes time to take off the loafers, or the brogues, or the saddle shoes, or the oxfords or the wingtips and put on something a little more comfortable, you have a lot of casual footwear options. But we all know that nothing looks or feels better than a…

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Spacewalker Junior Lamp

Perhaps movies like Independence Day have made us a bit fearful of what extraterrestrial life might bring to our planet.  The little buggers are always shown blasting ray-guns at our historic landmarks instead of, say, coming in peace with a few cold ones.  We can tell you this, if some little…

By Mike Newman
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