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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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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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John Varvatos Suede Hipster Chukka

There was a time when the term hipster wasn't synonymous with the word douchebag, but that time has long since passed. Even though hipsters went a little ridiculously overboard with trends like skinny jeans, PBR, and shirts with quotes from movies you (or anyone else for that matter) have never…

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Transportation
2011 Kia Optima

Listen, we know what you're thinking because we were thinking it too - a Kia? Really? Yes, really. Sure, it might have a grill that looks like it was stolen from Honda, and tail lights ripped from a Mitsubishi, but is that really a bad thing? Let's face it, five…

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Contests & Give-Aways
GIVEAWAY: Narwhal Tie-Fold Wallet

When was the last time you changed wallets? If the answer is anything more than a month, you're probably carrying at least four credit cards, an id, insurance card, frequent shopper cards, some cash, and a few "dinner" receipts you keep forgetting to expense. There's a name for that -…

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Clothing
Stone Island Shadow Stealth Jacket

The list of features in the Shadow Stealth Jacket from Stone Island reads more like the list from a Bond gadget than a jacket: stowaway hood, aeration vents, internal hidden multi-pocket construction, high performance, waterproof, windproof, invisible zippers - but every man could use a little more James Bond in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gear
AK47 Aqua Fire

Cubicle warfare is serious business, so leave your Nerf guns, Super Soakers, and annoying doodads at home - you need the AK47 Aqua Fire. Inheriting most of the traits of it's bullet spewing older brother (inexpensive, durable, easy to use, quick fire), the AK47 Aqua Fire shoots four water "bullets"…

By Cooper Fleishman
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