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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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Vintage Coffee Bean Bag Chairs

There are a lot of things we want to own that we will, unfortunately, never be able to own. We're less concerned about the stereotypically museumesque things: fine art, pottery and anything that hangs on a wall, and more concerned about anything with an engine or a comfortable seat. Falling…

By Cooper Fleishman
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iPad Stash

If you’re like us you have upwards of a dozen coats in your closet and you’ve probably layered yourself with all of them this winter to dig your car out of a plow-created snow bank.  In a normal snowpocalypse-free winter, when we would only wear one coat at a time, we’d…

By Mike Newman
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Drinks
Mustache Shaped Flask

Mustaches are an American pastime. Growing one is a coming of age; a sign of a distinguished gentleman; a mile marker in the journey of life that indicates you're a little more grown up. Growing up doesn't mean you have to hang up your drinking shoes though, quite the opposite…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Robo Rainbow

Described as "a complicated technical solution to aide in simple acts of vandalism" the Robo Rainbow was created to tag up the streets with the perfect rainbow. It's a cool idea and a nice gesture (considering he could have rigged it to draw something vulgar) but what would have been…

By Tim Jacobsen
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Murrays Art Print

Earlier this year on a random night in New York City a group of friends were enjoying a night of drinking and some karaoke when Bill Murray passed by. Realizing it was the famous actor, the group decided to invite him to join them. Bill Murray stayed the entire night and bought…

By Mike Newman
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