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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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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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Rapha Bicycle Collection

If you are unfamiliar with Rapha they produce top of the line biking gear, so when they decided to make the foray into actually manufacturing bikes they wisely turned to some of the leading frame builders around.  It’s like a celebrity deciding to create their own clothing line and getting…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
Volkswagen Transporter Rockton 4Motion

Simply put, there hasn’t been a cooler van since B.A. Baracus was running missions with The A-Team.  Sometimes you gotta haul some serious stuff (lots and lots of insanely heavy stuff) to places that don’t show up on a GPS unit.  It’s for precisely these off-road situations that Volkswagen created The Rockton. …

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Audio
SteelSeries Siberia Neckband for iPod, iPhone & iPad

Is it embarrassing to admit that there are times when we don’t want to wear our headphones cause they’ll screw up our hair?  Sure that doesn’t sound like the manliest thing a guy can say, but when you consider the reason we want to look good is to pick up…

By Mike Newman
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John Lennon’s Ferrari

We were so close to declaring Infinium Ale from Sam Adams and Weihenstephan the greatest "colliding of universes" item on the market, then we saw this - John Lennon’s 1965 Ferrari 330 GT.  Now, we love a good dry-hopped ale as much as the next guy, but let’s be honest, this…

By Mike Newman
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J. Hilburn Custom Clothing

It’s no secret that dressing well at the office can impress the higher-ups and lead in part to that corner office and the Don Draper-esque personal secretary.  The problem is most shops sell clothing designed to fit anyone, including a sumo wrestler after a night at The Sizzler.  The only…

By Mike Newman
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