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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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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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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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Timberland Counterpane Collection

What's your go-to pair of shoes when you're heading out for the day and you don't want to rock sneakers? Wingtips? Mandals? Boat shoes? Chukka boots? You don't even need to answer that question because Timberland has something for everyone with the Counterpane Collection. Timberland rebuilt your entire footwear collection…

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Audio
Sony Ericsson Media Speaker Stand

With iPhones and Blackberries and Android devics being as ubiquitous as they are, there's no shortage of music on the go. You could simply settle for the bland, tinny, dull audio that gets piped out of the same speaker you use to talk to your mother (ours hasn't figured out…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
MWC Mil-Tec MKII Chronograph

What's the first thing you think of when you think of military precision? Whatever type of exploding device you're currently mulling over right now (you are a man after all, explosions are in your genes), there was a clock involved at one point or another. MWC wants to keep you…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Brooklyn Hard Candy

Hard candy has long been relegated to blue and white porcelain bowls that sit atop coffee tables in Grandmothers’ homes everywhere.  They’re the Matlock of candy.  The only one that ever seemed to transcend generations was Werther’s Originals and even those never held a candle to some Sour Patch Kids…

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Fashion
Diesel DZ4189 Watch

With a cell phone, iPad and a laptop you don't really have need for a watch, do you? Wrong. It may only exist as a fashion statement nowadays, but since you like looking good you still have cause to have a watch. The Diesel DZ4189 is the watch that you…

By Cooper Fleishman
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