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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
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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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Complete History of the Batmobile: 1941-2010

Today we're celebrating the new year by taking a look back at a complete visual history of the Batmobile, courtesy of the experts at CarInsurance.org. EMBED THE IMAGE ABOVE ON YOUR SITE <a href="https://coolmaterial.com/roundup/history-batmobile/" mce_href="https://coolmaterial.com/roundup/history-batmobile/"><img src="https://coolmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/evolution-batmobile-jpg1.jpg" mce_src="https://coolmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/evolution-batmobile-jpg1.jpg" alt="Batmobile History" width="500" border="0" /></a><br />Via: <a href="http://carinsurance.org" mce_href="http://carinsurance.org">CarInsurance.org</a>

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GorillaMobile Yogi for iPad

There are a lot of situations when you want to record moments to relive later. Most of those situations are going to require getting a camera into impossible situations: clamped on the headboard, floating above the cat and perched precariously on the fold-up tray table. For all those times, there…

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Authentics Pen Clip

Pay attention gents: carry a pen with you at all times. In the world of e-mail, facebook and twitter, writing with ink has a permanence, a romanticism and a finality that we've all but forgotten about. Pens don't have batteries that die. Or screens that crack. Or family plans with…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Aviator Wing Desk

If money were no object, we would own everything from Restoration Hardware. Even if that were the case, and especially because it's not, this desk is still really special. Not special in the "rides a separate bus to school" sense, special in the "I love this kid just a little…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Understand Rap: Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You and Your Grandma Can Understand

If your school offered Spanish, French and Chinese as language options you may have noticed that because of the difficulty, Chinese class sizes were dwarfed by the others.  Now, let’s just say your school offered Spanish, French, Chinese and Rap as languages, well, students would be begging to take Chinese. …

By Mike Newman
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