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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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Web’s Best: Recipes With Beer

We're interested in consuming beer in any way possible. Just drinking it is rookie level, we like to have a pint while chowing down on some food laced with it. Of course, not every dish  works so well with a bit of lager in the recipe (tuna fish comes to…

By Mike Newman
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10 Other Things We’d Be Willing To Do For Free

A few weeks ago, BMW flew us out to Monterey, California to test drive some of their new top of the line 2013 models. (If you didn’t get a chance, you can read about it and see the pics here.) Now here’s the thing, this was an experience we would…

By Mike Newman
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Web’s Best: Desserts for Dudes

For some inexplicable reason, dessert has never been seen as a man's game. Yeah, we'll eat it, but baking never seemed to be nearly as manly as tossing a steak on the grill. If you're ready to put your ego aside (at least partially) here are some desserts you could whip up…

By Mike Newman
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A Day at the Track with BMW

BMW was cool enough to invite us out to California for their 2013 Preview last week. It consisted of a swanky dinner with talk about their current projects and one awesome day at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. We'll skip the dinner talk (we may have had a bit too much…

By Mike Newman
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30 Albums That Define Cool

Any album “list” is going to be incomplete. It’s going to be filled with albums you agree with, artists you hate and some sort of commentary that you probably disagree with. This list is no different. However, rather than ranking these in order of importance or influence, we decided to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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