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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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Lands’ End Chino Blazer

Given the relative popularity of chino pants (whatever you do, don't call them khakis), it was only a matter of time before a company used chino cloth to make a blazer. Lands' End is making out handsomely by making you handsome with their five-pocket, two-button, soft cotton twill Chino Blazer.…

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Gerber Gator Combo Axe II

We usually judge tools on a few criteria: is it durable, practical and of course, bad ass? Gerber pretty much always passes and the Gator Combo Axe II is no exception. How awesome is an axe with a saw in the handle? Even with the addition of the saw the…

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The ‘P’ Is For Penis

Keith P. (take a guess what the P stands for) Rein is an artist doing crazy things with pop culture, naked girls, and wood (not necessarily in equal parts). While we could fill this post with dick jokes and some of his more clever plays on words (Pocahontits, anyone?), we're…

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Fashion
Cadence 4-Bit Binary Watch

It's often said - by geeks - that there are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't. Thankfully, you don't have to be a geek to rock the Cadence 4-Bit Binary watch because the 316L stainless plus brass combination looks goods regardless of whether or…

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The Survival Handbook

When it comes to survival, the only things you're qualified for right now are the office and the always looming zombie attack. Sooner or later we all have to come to the realization that we'll never be Les Stroud (or even Bear Grylls) and pick up some skills so we're…

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