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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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Screwpop Tool

A man can never have too many tools, especially when those tools assist in the most important part of any endeavor - the beer. Unfortunately, something like the Handyman Bottle Opener lacks versatility. You can't exactly bring that thing into the 9-5 without getting odd glances from the boss. Then…

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Clothing
J. Crew Lightweight Utility Shirt

Like your favorite t-shirt in office-friendly, collared format, the Lightweight Utility Shirt from J. Crew is inspired by vintage workwear from the early 1900s. Its fine two-ply cotton has a soft, aged feel, but stays freshly updated with camp pockets and detailed topstitching.

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Food
Everything Bagel Spice

The everything bagel is something of an enigma. If it really has everything you would ever want on a bagel, why wouldn't you want to put it on things that aren't bagels? Seeing as how it does have everything (no naming schemes here) on a bagel (except maybe the bacon…

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The Roundup
Cardnetics Penny Shooter

Portability and concealability have always been issues in the world of clandestine office espionage. Yeah, you could pelt the guy in the cube forty feet away with a marshmallow, but it's not exactly easy to sneak the "gun" or the ammunition (Who really has a bag of marshmallows at the…

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Accessories
Lighthouse Boot

Vintage is a word that gets tossed around a lot these days, and generally without good reason. Every once in a while though a vintage piece comes along that's just too good to pass up. What happens though when it's a sweet pair of boots? Do you really want to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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