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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
7 Beer Fridges to Store Your Fresh 6-Packs In

Who doesn’t love a good beer fridge? If you’re a serious beer connoisseur, a solid beer refrigerator is an absolute necessity. It keeps your brew—in all its mountainous glory—cold and separate from the rest of the nonsense in your regular fridge.  It is a temple in which to house your…

By Maxwell Barna
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Food
Soylent Coffiest Is Breakfast and Coffee in One Bottle

Soylent, the pioneering food technology company that gives you access to a complete and nutritious food in a convenient package, is back at it with Coffiest to solve your morning breakfast conundrum. We know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but we've all had those mornings…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
World’s First Driverless Race Car

At first glance, this curious vehicle looks like the future of Formula class race cars. But something's just not right. The driver, well, isn’t there. There isn’t even room for a driver. You are looking at the completed Roborace Driverless Race Car made specifically for the world’s first autonomous racing…

By Kevin McCauley
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Features
The Only 5 Cookbooks Every Man Should Own

Listen… We all go through it—that phase of life where you eat 20-piece McNuggets and DiGiorno pizzas for dinner on the daily. But when it comes time to grow up and stop clogging your arteries, you realize cooking is one of those things that’s actually exceptionally rewarding and fun to…

By Maxwell Barna
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Transportation
An Alfa Romeo 1950s Italian Military Truck Is up for Auction

One look at this 1952 Alfa Romeo 1900 M ‘Matta’ reconnaissance vehicle was probably all it took for you to decide you want to be the winning bidder when the gavel falls at the Sotheby’s auction in London this September. There’s more to the story of this vehicle than the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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