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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
The 10 Best Movies of 2016

This past year saw the releases of some excellent movies. Established franchises had worthy sequels and installments while new movies sated our appetite for stuff that’s a little less superhero genre specific. A few of our favorite directors showed up to give use new stuff this year, while a few…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Home
The Fucking Calendar

If you're the kind of person that appreciates keeping track of the days in the year and the versatility of the word fuck (maybe you own this, this, and this), you're going to want The Fucking Calendar. Created as a funny gift to kick off the new year, the calendar…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Honda CBR ‘Angry Bird’

Wenley Andrews, Australian bike builder / customizer / fabricator / designer / auteur, might be best known for his savage Triumph builds, but this Honda CBR954RR—dubbed "Angry Bird"—is a street fighter unlike any other. Andrews started designing and having custom parts made for a CBR project almost a decade ago,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Carvana Opens an Eight-Story Car Vending Machine

Carvana makes the car buying experience a lot less painful, but they're probably best known for their five-story car vending machine in Nashville. Everything's bigger in Texas, so Carvana just unveiled a new vending machine that is eight stories tall in Houston. It holds thirty cars, has four delivery bays…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
6 Famous Men and Their Whiskeys of Choice

Good men drink good whiskey. Whether it be scotch, bourbon, or Irish history has shown us time and time again that men worthy of our admiration are fans of the good brown elixir. Some used it to inspire art, others used it to treat their colds, and still others use it…

By Maxwell Barna
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