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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 11 Best Video Games to Give as Gifts This Year

Gamers can be difficult to buy for. With games being sold as downloads as often as discs, you can't really search through their catalog to figure out what they do and don't have already. Plus they're proactive. Convincing them to hold off buying new releases until after Christmas can be…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Entertainment
7 Best Turntable Mats and Slipmats for Everyday Use

Finding the perfect turntable mat for your setup can be more work than you originally did picking out the perfect turntable. Do you want a slipmat or a turntable mat? Rubber turntable mat? Leather turntable mat? Cork turntable mat? Felt turntable mat? As always, the answer is, "it depends." Record slipmats…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999

Told through a collection of club flyers from the personal archives of NYC DJs, promotors, club kids, nightlife impresarios and the artists themselves, No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999 is a visual history of the golden era of New York City club life. Put together by world renowned DJ Stretch…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Vanguard Roadster

If you're a fan of metal—the material, not the music—and a sort of raw and industrial look, you're going to love the first bike from NYC-based Vanguard. Started by a couple of former Confederate Motorcycles guys, the company's first bike, The Roadster, looks like it was clad in sheet metal. All designed,…

By Mike Newman
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Home
Three New Candles to Make Your House Smell Like a Diner, a Library, or a Barber Shop

Trying to capture the scents of idyllic places is a difficult job, but we're proud of what we have in our three new candles.  Coffee & Cigarettes brings you back to a time when "cancer sticks" was an ironically self-aware joke name, not an aggressive ad campaign.  Public Library hits…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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