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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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Road Bike Decal & Handlebar Hook

If you live in the city and store your bike on the wall all Jerry Seinfeld-like you’ve probably already realized you can toss your jacket on the hanging handlebars seeing as how storage space is at a premium.  Well, you know what would create even more space?  Removing the bike.  For the…

By Mike Newman
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Paintball Robot

At some point in your life you wanted to build a robot and be on Battle Bots. It could have been when you were a kid, or five years ago, or even yesterday, but that moment exists. Building things with your bare hands isn't just something you enjoy doing, it's…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Morgan Threewheeler

Threewheelers are, in all honesty, a little bit weird. It's not really a car and it's not a motorcyle, so what is it? We could go into a bunch of details about the original Morgan (won the French grand prix in 1913, set several long-distance speed records in the 1930s…

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Maglite XL100 LED Flashlight

A flashlight’s one of those things a guy won’t realize he needs until it’s too late like the latest version of Flash for a fantasy football draft or ping pong balls for a round of beer pong.  If you’re reading this and realizing you need one you'd be wise to…

By Mike Newman
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Nite Ize 18” Gear Tie

If there was a race to see which guy could untie his extension cords the fastest you could probably drive to a store twenty minutes away, buy a new extension cord, drive back and still win the competition.  The truth is, we usually keep our extension cords in a cardboard…

By Mike Newman
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