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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
Entertainment
Let Squarespace Help You Make Your Next Move

It's the time of year when people are ready to kickstart something new, seek personal improvement, and make their next move. This year, let Squarespace help. Squarespace helps anyone build a beautiful online home, so whether your new goal requires a website or online store, they've got you covered. So why should…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
The Trainspotting 2 Soundtrack Doesn’t Disappoint

For all the things that made Trainspotting great—a bevy of good actors, a screenplay based on a fantastic book, Danny Boyle's signature motion-sickness-inducing pace—few things helped set the tone as much as the soundtrack. If you were worried that the soundtrack to T2 Trainspotting, the follow-up film, would be any different, fear not.…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
Honda Self-Balancing Motorcycle

There have been quite a few great reveals at CES this year, but Honda unveiled a self-balancing motorcycle and associated piece of tech that blows almost everything else away. Honda's "Riding Assist" technology was derived from the Asimo robot and the Uni-Cub personal transporter and, in essence, uses the wheels…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The Movies in 2017 We’re Most Excited For

Cinema has a long road ahead of it if movies are going to reassert themselves as the most prestigious screen-based viewing medium. TV stole the title when no one was looking and doesn’t seem to be keen on relinquishing its new found glory. This past year didn’t do a whole…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Transportation
This Defender Has a Corvette Stingray Engine in It

East Coast Defender making any Land Rover even more badass is nothing new, but Project Pedigree is different because it's powered by a Corvette engine. Some of you might consider that sacrilegious, but we're totally on board with the 6.2L Corvette Stingray LS3 V8 outputting 430hp and the BM 6L60…

By Cooper Fleishman
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