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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

These 5 lighters turn a disposable necessity into a piece of EDC you’ll actually want to carry.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

By Cool Material
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
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This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
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The Best Bar Carts to Make Your Cocktails Mobile

When it comes to booze storage, bar carts are a fun, good-looking way to keep your favorite bottles all in one place. You can roll them wherever they’re needed, stash ‘em away when the party is over, or use them as decorative pieces to help accentuate the look of your…

By Maxwell Barna
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Apps to Help You Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions

Everyone’s trying to be more productive, organized, and efficient, which is great. The year also just ticked over to 2019, which has the potential to be great. A lot of people out there are going to try and use the new year as their starting point for a more put-together…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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8 Email Newsletters Every Guy Should Know

When people think about newsletters, their first instinct is to usually groan at the idea of some company whose email they regretfully signed up for years ago spamming them about discounts, or giving them unsolicited advice about something they don’t care about. It’s a thing. But not all newsletters are…

By Maxwell Barna
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What to Drink this New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve is usually a night defined by shots and straight champagne, quickly followed by decisions that wouldn’t have been made on literally any other night of the year. We think it’s time to change a bit of that. Let’s class up the party with a few cocktail options…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The Best Books of 2018

There were so many books published last year we can’t believe people are still talking about print dying. As a society, haven’t we put that concern to bed? If you still doubt it, just look at 2018’s published works. The diversity of the field was crazy high, with stories we’ve…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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