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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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Our Favorite Opening Movie Credits

A movie’s opening credits are supposed to grab your attention in a way that guarantees you’ll sit for the rest of the movie. Some do it better than others, while still others end up being better than the movie itself. It might be because the music that accompanies is spot…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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8 New Apps You Should Know

Instead of wading through the massive amount of new app releases searching for a few diamonds in the rough, just let us be your guide. This is a collection of our favorite new apps for both iOS and Android for your downloading pleasure. Boomerang Mail If you're not already using the Boomerang…

By Cooper Fleishman
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How to Smoke a Turkey

In the next few days, millions of backyard master chefs, pitmasters, and fry cooks all over the country are going to cook what they undoubtedly believe is the hands-down best turkey ever carved up and served on a platter. Someone’s going to be right, but we’ll never know who, because…

By Maxwell Barna
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The 10 Best Dystopian Movies

Whenever we’re feeling like this world can’t get any more ludicrous, there’s nothing like a good dystopian film to offer us some perspective. Post-apocalyptic nightmare, futuristic totalitarian takeover, environmental wasteland—it’s a genre fraught with diverse settings and futuristic extrapolations, but one thing is always constant: Those world’s are so much…

By Maxwell Barna
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Easy Thanksgiving Recipes that Will Impress Your Family

Thanksgiving dinners often live or die by the side dishes guests bring, so don’t downplay your role in the evening’s meal. We’ve been at meals where someone’s small dish of greens proves more popular than the turkey, stuffing, or mashed potatoes, and everyone leaves talking about how they need to…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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