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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
By Cool Material
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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Beers That Taste Like Your Favorite Halloween Candies

What was your prized candy during your trick-or-treating days? Reese's? Almond Joy? Stale-ass pretzels from the weird neighbor no one talked to? Or worse, Good 'N Plenty? Your candy hunting days may be over, but that doesn't mean you can't take your preferences over to something more adult oriented—drinking beer. That's why…

By Mike Newman
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10 Things You Never Knew About IKEA

IKEA is one of the most recognizable brands in modern history. From desks to dish racks, IKEA has a little bit of everything for everyone. But you don’t get to where IKEA is in the market without picking up some interesting factoids and stories along the way. For instance, did…

By Maxwell Barna
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Simple Soups for Fall

We’re in the thick of autumnal bliss right now. The temperatures are dropping, the rain and clouds are settling in, the leaves on the trees are turning orange, yellow, and brown, and we can feel in our bones how close we are to Peak Soup Weather. Our favorite things about…

By Maxwell Barna
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9 Breweries Brewing and Doing Good

Sometimes it feels like craft brewing is more invested in the community than other industries. Where some people are in business to make a quick buck, many brewers seem to start up because they have a genuine desire to improve their communities. They know they’re good at making beer. They…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The 50 Funniest Movies We’ve Ever Seen

Everyone loves a comedy, so we thought it’d be easy enough to assemble a list like this. Just get everyone in the office to share the movies they laugh hardest at. But what we found was, the comedy genre is constantly bleeding and blending into other genres. Action, drama, political…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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