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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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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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If Men Wrote Women’s Magazines

Women get all kinds of advice from magazines from how to dress to how to please a man in the bedroom, and even what to cook for us. And while it's not all bad (with hotties like Kristen Bell and Jessica Alba on the cover) these mags are lacking much…

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The Quotable Douchebag

The line between asshole and douchebag is a very thin one. Few people can walk the line without drunkenly stumbling into fist-pumping, spray tanned, collar-popping territory. Assholeology explained what to do, and now the Quotable Douchebag lays out what not to do. Gene Simmons for instance - "I don't believe…

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Nau Striped Lightbeam Jacket

You can't do anything these days without hearing about the "green" movement. The big problem is that all of this environmental sustainability has no immediate benefit for us... until Nau. Nau is a company concerned with how their operations and products will affect the world we live in, but they…

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Falcon Bullet

Falcon Motorcycles are deeply entrenched in British motoring history, specifically motorcycles. Rather than building brand new custom bikes from the ground up, they restore derelict frames and engines from vintage British marquees like Triumph, Norton, Velocette, and Ariel - all circa 1930-1960. The bikes are then re-imagined in a partnership…

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To A Tee: KidRobot

Founded by Paul Budnitz, KidRobot is a premier designer of limited edition toys and apparel. A cocktail of urban street style and pop art, the line collaborates with artists specializing in graffiti, fine art, fashion, graphic design and music. The result is a collection of tees that boast fun graphics,…

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