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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
Entertainment
The 9 Best New Things on Netflix This Month

July is going to be a pretty tough month for Netflixers everywhere. We’re losing some real classics: Cheech & Chong’s Up In Smoke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey (the original!), The Perfect Storm, and quite a few others. Total bummer. Luckily, there’s…

By Maxwell Barna
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7 Videos of Fireworks Captured by Drones

Why pack a blanket and venture out into the heat this Fourth of July when you can enjoy a spectacular fireworks display from the comfort of your own home? No, we're not talking about watching someone's crummy iPhone video laced with muffled oohs and ahhs, we're talking about something far…

By Mike Newman
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5 Underwater Cameras to Consider for Your Summer Vacation

People are doing more with photography than ever before. Photos from iPhones are used to make billboard-quality graphics. Companies like GoPro are putting out entire 360-degree virtual reality camera rigs. Brands like Canon are putting out consumer-grade DSLRs with 50-megapixel sensors. Fifty. Who the hell even needs that many megapixels?…

By Maxwell Barna
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Fashion
6 Summer Shirts That DGAF

Make this the summer you step out of your stylistic comfort zone. Instead of only considering shirts in shades and patterns you're comfortable with, give one of those "I could never pull that off" shirts a try. You'll have a shirt that feels fresh, garners you attention, and looks better…

By Mike Newman
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‘The Race of Gentlemen’ Shot on Film

The Race of Gentlemen is an event that just begs to be shot on film. The antique machines and old school style make lugging around an antique camera feel not only natural, but necessary. Deciding to shoot film gave me a chance to break from the fast-paced action of TROG, meter the light,…

By Matt Faisetty
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