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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
Features
Our 10 Favorite New Beers of 2016

In case you weren't paying attention, 2016 required some heavy drinking. Luckily, we were happy to oblige. We consumed our fair share of good beers around the Cool Material office this year. We knocked back IPAs, stouts, dry-hopped pale ales conditioned on fresh fruit purees, and many more. Some of it was…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
Blu Dot x Handsome Cycles Bike

Blu Dot, purveyor of all things modern in the world of furniture, teamed up with Handsome Cycles, the Minneapolis cyclery dedicated to gorgeous two-wheeled transportation, to create this Blu Dot x Handsome Cycles bike. The stripped down, lean and clean single speed is stylistically influenced by café racers and outfitted with…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
The Whitefox Snowmobile Fits a Family

Canadian engineer, innovator and angel investor Charles Bombardier is incapable of thinking small, which is probably part of the reason his Whitefox Concept snowmobile fits a family of four. Rendered off the basis of the Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) side-by-side snowmobile design that would later become the Ski-Doo ELITE, Whitefox…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Stack These 3D-Printed Chocolates to Create Unique Flavors

Made as a collaboration between Universal Favorite and Bakedown Cakery, Complements are modular chocolates that can be eaten alone or stacked with other flavors to create unique combinations. The original modular shape that resembles a small set of steps was 3D-printed and then turned into chocolate molds. Once the molds…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The New York Times’ Pictures of the Year

The death of journalism has been greatly exaggerated. As we embark on a new year, the role of journalist—and photojournalist—will be as important as ever. Part of the reason is documentation, and The New York Times has gathered proof of how important, moving, heartbreaking, and encouraging that can be. This is…

By Mike Newman
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