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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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Board Series iPhone 4 Grip Tape

With age comes wisdom. We'll also be the first people to admit that it brings a fair of exhaustion with it. We might not be able to run a five minute mile, roundhouse kick like Chuck Norris or bust kick flips and ollies with ease, but we still like to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Utilitarian Franchise Pillows

Pillows are not the domain of man. It doesn't have an aspect ratio, a measurement 42 inches or greater, a cup size or a discernible taste (we don't frequently consume pillows so we can't confirm this), so we normally wouldn't care. apparently there's a first time for everything though because…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
DeBruir Weekend Holdall

The DeBruir Weekend Holdall is an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in mystery. It's a weekender bag with dimensions as follows: 620mm x 250mm x 250mm. There is an interior flap that secures closed with leather straps and brass buckles. Then, there's another flap on top of that to…

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Bullerjan Classic

Space heaters have a place but that place happens to be the office.  If you want to heat up a room quickly – and you don’t have a bootleg copy of Black Swan – the Bullerjan Classic will do so and look far better than some chintzy electric space heater. …

By Mike Newman
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Fashion
Analarm Watch

Forget nails on a chalkboard or the squeaking of silverware, the sound of an alarm clock is the most awful noise the human ear can endure.  Even setting your cell to Beethoven’s 5th will eventually render the song worse than a dentist’s drill.  While it may be unavoidable for waking you…

By Mike Newman
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