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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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Beastie Boys Nixon Time Teller

Back in the day, there weren't many girls around the way. You wake up late for school and man you don't wanna go. You gotta fight... you know the rest. With the Nixon Time Teller / Beastie Boys collaboration, you can fight for your right - to wear Mike D.…

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inMotion Air Black

Think of all the money you’ve spent on dollar store twist-ties in an attempt to corral the wires from your electronics over the years.  Okay, it’s probably under $10 but that’s not the point, the point is they look like something a broke college kid would buy for his dorm…

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Artifact Bag Co. Waxed Canvas Tote

In elementary school the cool kids bought lunch and the less popular brought lunch.  Not sure why this was, but it was.  In reality, those brown baggers were smart, they were saving lots of cash (their parent’s cash).  Now that we're more mature (occasional fart jokes aside) we can forget…

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Vintage Motorcycle Lamp

There are a handful of household items that any guy would have a hard time injecting some masculinity into (possible new sexual euphemism).  Along with drapes and bath salts, lamps are not always made for guys.  However, do some searching and you can seemingly always find something on Etsy to…

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Women of No Pants Subway Ride Day 2011

The ultimate goal of most New Year's resolutions is more time without pants. Eating healthy, working out more and getting a better job all point in that direction. While most of us are probably already failing resolution wise, women the world over succeeded in epic fashion with Improv Everywhere's No…

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