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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
Schindelhauer Ludwig VIII Brooks Edition Bicycle

Brooks, the company responsible for some of the best bike saddles on the market, is commemorating their 150th Anniversary this year with a special bike built by Berlin-based shop Schindelhauer. The Schindelhauer Ludwig VIII Brooks Edition Bicycle takes the timeless aesthetic of the classic Brooks saddle and decks out an…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Sense Monitors Your Electricity Consumption

Sense is a new electricity consumption tracking system that, unlike most of the other options on the market, tracks your usage right at the panel. You need a qualified electrician to install it, but once that’s done you’ll be able to find out all kinds of useful information about where…

By Cooper Fleishman
Sense-Monitors
Entertainment
Stranger Things: Volume 1 Soundtrack

Stranger Things is the greatest thing to watch on Netflix since the last greatest thing on Netflix, but finishing that first season left everyone clamoring for more. While we don't yet have a second season of eerie adventures to watch, we finally have the official volume one soundtrack. There are plenty of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gear
Zero Gravity Racks

When faced with the combination of surfboards, snowboards, skis, fixies and mountain bikes, the father and son team behind Zero Gravity Racks found they didn't have enough room to store all of their gear while still being able to park the car in the garage—so they developed a storage solution…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
8 Songs You Never Knew Were Covers

Never underestimate the power of a good cover tune. You may not realize it, but we’re willing to bet at least a couple of your all-time favorite songs are colorful renditions of an original you’ve probably never even heard before. Don’t believe us? Here are 10 Songs You Didn’t Know…

By Maxwell Barna
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