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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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Every Beer We Drank at the Great American Beer Festival, Ranked

The Great American Beer Festival is the beer festival of beer festivals. With close to 1,000 breweries in attendance, each pouring at least a couple beers, it's impossible to taste all the glorious suds. Still, we tried. Or, at least we tried to track down the most unique, sought after,…

By Mike Newman
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The Best Face Washes You Won’t Find at the Grocery Store

We don't want to make any of you reading this feel old, but the time when we could safely ignore a skincare regimen has passed. It's time to get serious about taking care of your skin before all the wrinkles and the bags under your eyes become something you can't…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Best Commuter Bikes for Getting to Work

Riding your bike to and from the office or the nearest coffee shop sounds easy enough at first. Do it for more than a week on a bike not suited for commuting purposes and those fantastic health benefits are going to be the last thing on your mind because you're…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Best Shower Speakers to Listen While You Wash

We understand that every man reading this has at least one shower jam that they like to get down to, and sing along with, while they're rubbing themselves down with the latest and greatest in the world of body wash. We're not going to critique your choice of music because…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fan-Made Movie Posters Better than the Originals

The key to a great movie poster is capturing the atmosphere of the film. Those ensemble posters you see on blockbusters might satisfy actors’ agents, but for the audience, we miss out on crucial details, like genre, plot, and sometimes even the title. When we look at a poster, we…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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