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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
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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Braun Square Digital Watch

This Braun watch has everything you need in a time piece. Clean lines, a cool face, time display that doesn’t require counting on your fingers and a lot of black (leather, plated stainless and the display). It’s high design meets retro 80s digital clock—without the funky colors, calculator and plastic…

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Moshi Moshi Bluetooth Dock and Phone

Leave it to the French to use something we take for granted and redesign it. Rudolf Diesel designed - you guessed it - the diesel engine. A great accomplishment, but nothing compared to the work of Jacques Heim and Louis Reard who invented the bikini. Unfortunately, as of today, neither…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gear
Building A Better Nerf Gun

Tired of losing the war on the home front and at the office, the man behind Asciimation decided to take his styrofoam and rubber arsenal to the next level. Rather than just buying one of Nerf's battery, belt-fed, hi-power options, he built his own sidearm from the ground up. We…

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Entertainment
The Art of War for Dating

At the beginning of the day, you're going to roll over and realize that three 4's doesn't really make a 12. As much as you'd like to console yourself about the night before with a beer or five, there are some things that even beer can't fix. That's where books…

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Entertainment
You Might Be A Zombie And Other Bad News

Cracked.com is our generation's MAD magazine...even if MAD magazine is still around. Cracked took a page out of history and decided to compile a tome - a compendium if you will - of weird, ridiculous, completely true facts that won't get you laid, but they definitely have a very good…

By Cooper Fleishman
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