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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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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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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 Expedition Wooden Tripod

You've got the best camera gear ever, right? Spent a girlfriend-enraging amount on that new Nikon, Canon or Leica model with all the bells and whistles? Bought another 3 lenses, extra memory cards, batteries and a sweet bag? That's all fine and good, but by the time you get to…

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Turtle Pens

Handwriting things is more personal, more creative and frequently more convenient than typing. If you didn't have a pen, how would you doodle during meetings you're forced to attend but have no reason to be at? How would you write thank you notes to your gramma for that $20 she…

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Articles
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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Izola Soap Dishes

When was the last time you "decorated" a bathroom? College? First apartment? The simple truth is that we could probably survive with just a towel bar and a shower curtain, and those are for totally utilitarian reasons. Maybe you spice it up a little by picking up something other than…

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Accessories
SeaVees 9/65 Bamboo Mocs

In September of 1965 (that's where the 9/65 in the name comes from), the San Francisco Examiner printed something about the city having a "hip hangout" for beatniks. Just like that, the hippie movement was legitimized with a printed story. The original "green" movement (yes, that green) possessed all the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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