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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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Stereolizer iPad App

90% of the time, we're willing to sacrifice a little bit of warmth and clarity in favor of convenience. Drunken hazes not withstanding, we're actually talking about music. Vinyl is fantastic and everything, but it's a huge pain in the ass compared to the convenience of loading up your iPod/Phone/Pad…

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10 Rugged Jobs Most Men Would Die For

Unless companies change what they make laptop keyboards out of we will never come home from a day of work with dirt caked under our fingernails. Sometimes we are happy about that but often we end up staring at a Word document wishing we could do something more rugged for…

By Mike Newman
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Cyclepedia: A Tour of Iconic Bicycle Designs

If you gave us a blank check (encouraged) we would quickly amass a garage full of bikes that would make Jay Leno’s car collection look like a pathetic pile of junk.  Until that happens we’ll settle for flipping through Cyclepedia:  A Tour of Iconic Bicycle Designs like we were in…

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Bat Mirror

To us Batman would be the ultimate spokesperson. Seriously if he’s got it, we want it.  The Dark Knight could endorse the Shake Weight and we’d find merit in the damn thing.  We want his ride, we want all the toys in his belt and now we want this Bat…

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C.H. Hanson Power Drill Pencil Sharpener

Measure twice, cut once. It's been ingrained in our psyche since we were five years old and dad showed us that hammers were for things other than hitting our little brother. Unfortunately, math has never really been our strong suit and using a tape measure is hard, so we always…

By Cooper Fleishman
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