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Lifestyle

Inspiration for elevated living: the best in food, drinks, home, travel, health, entertainment & more.

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Lifestyle
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
Lifestyle
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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Lifestyle
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
Lifestyle
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
Transportation
1981 Land Cruiser FJ45

Part beach cruiser and part safari wagon, this 1981 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ45 is the latest in a long line of excellent builds from The FJ Company. The vehicle that once served a national university, a foundation for troubled teens and even the Colombian National Guard was frame-off restored to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The 10 Best New Things Coming to Netflix in February

February is going to be a pretty tough month for Netflix subscribers, as we’re losing quite a few of our favorite titles. Trainspotting, Friday, Black Hawk Down, The Kite Runner, Clerks, There Will Be Blood, and *shudder* Bratz: Babyz: The Movie are among just a few of the casualties this…

By Maxwell Barna
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Entertainment
The 9 Best Things Coming to Amazon Prime Video This Month

The Amazon Prime Video catalog is growing by the month, and not only because a ton of old movies are jumping into the public domain. They’re getting their hands on Oscar and Emmy winners, along with an ever increasing selection of original programming. If you don’t have Amazon, now may…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Food
These Stump Glasses are Made from an Oak Branch Mold

We've seen drinkware made from actual wood before and thought, "Huh, that looks cool, but there's no way I'm ever drinking out of it." Stump Glasses are a better solution. The glasses in the cocktail set—two tumblers and a larger cocktail number—were made using a mold of an actual oak…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
Alfa Romeo C18 Concept

Antonio Paglia is an architect and designer working out of Milan who created an Alfa Romeo Concept that's unbelievable. If the two-tone Alfa Romeo C18 Concept that he created looks like it's straight out of the sketchbook of a design school student specializing in autos that's because Paglia teaches that class at…

By Cooper Fleishman
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