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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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6 Entourages that Made Entourages Cool

With the arrival of the 7th Season of HBO's hit show "Entourage", we thought we'd take the occasion to review a couple of the great entourages of past and present, both fictional and non. Benjamin Franklin's Junto Society Also know as the Leather Apron Club, Benny Franklin's group became a…

By Wylie Overstreet
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The Biology of Getting Drunk

Image from The Hangover courtesy of Film Drunk It’s something we humans have been doing for ages, and it goes by many names: getting inebriated, plastered, wasted, housed, trashed, canned, trash-canned, and of course drunk, or, as it’s often spelled in text messages, durnkk.  It turns out the most correct…

By Wylie Overstreet
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How to Make Bacon from Scratch

Bacon.  It has a wonderful place in human history. Humans have eaten it for thousands of years, traded it as a staple of economies, and most recently, turned it into an internet meme. It’s no mystery why we have a love affair with Bacon. It’s the Christina Hendricks of meat…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Gentlemen: What Your Drink Says About You

Gentlemen: What Your Drink Says About You                                                                            

By Wylie Overstreet
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Badass Barbecues

Memorial Day is right around the corner, so you're probably scrambling with all the last minute preparations for the beer fueled, grilled meat decathlon that is the annual barbecue. Since grilling is the ultimate display of all things man, your grill should be a reflection of yourself - and excessively…

By Cooper Fleishman
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