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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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West Elm Bond Desks

Your workspace should be uncluttered and smart, which starts with a sharp desk like the West Elm Bond Desks + wedge unit. How could you bare to bury such a beautiful desk under a mess of paperwork? It gives you no choice but to be organized and productive. This traditionally…

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Fashion
Happy Hour Watch

A good watch tells you what time it is in relation to where you need to be. If you slave away Monday through Friday for The Man, it doesn't need multiple time zones or a compass, it just needs to tell you how close you are to that magical time…

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Entertainment
Mad Men: Season 3 DVD

In case you were looking for a reason - we're not saying you need one - to host a cocktail party and crack open that fresh bottle of whiskey, there's a new season of Mad Men available on DVD. So what's in Season 3? More Don Draper being Don Draper…

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To A Tee: Cassette Tape Edition

For some, cassette tapes don't seem so vintage...or at least we don't want them to feel that way. We hold onto the days when making her a carefully selected mixtape scored us some major points. At any rate, they've recently become retro enough to gain space on hip graphic tees.…

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Accessories
Vers Audio iPad Wood Case

If you're counting down the minutes until you can get your hands on an iPad you can fill some of that time checking out cool iPad accessories like the Vers Audio iPad Wood Case. Hand-made from solid hardwoods and bamboo with steel reinforcement it protects the iPad without adding too…

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