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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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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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Transportation
LiftTrax Inflatable Traction Mats

Rock Crawling: extreme verb - the piloting of a highly modified four-wheel drive vehicles (trucks, jeeps, etc.) over seemingly impassable terrain. Not seemingly impassable like a jarring trip over the grating on the side of the highway, we're talking about boulders, mountain trails, chasms, rock piles and the like. Sooner…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
Dust Design Co.

We totally believe one man’s trash could be another man’s treasure, it’s just that we normally associate that cliché with finding some old desk we could refurbish resting by a neighbor’s curb and not with actually putting pieces of trash around our necks.  Dust Design Co., however, thought otherwise about…

By Mike Newman
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Accessories
Adidas SLVR Concept Shoes

The problem with falling in love with concept anything is the fact that it rarely - if ever - gets produced. The Adidas SLVR Concepts are one of the few cases where the fairy tale never has to end. Like the best pair of stretchy pants after a big Thanksgiving…

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Entertainment
Jackass 3D on DVD

Of all the things we would like to avoid in our lives, getting hit in the nuts is about as high on the list as you can get.  When it happens, you’ll probably topple over wishing you wore a cup 24/7.  When it happens to someone else, you’ll probably topple…

By Mike Newman
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WALdok

Wiring a speaker system through your house is expensive and blasting your iPod speaker unit so loud you can hear it throughout the house could get you a swift noise violation courtesy of a cranky old neighbor.  A smarter way to traverse your pad and bring your music along is…

By Mike Newman
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