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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
This Land Rover Defender Is Inspired by NASCAR

Land Rover Defenders are supposed to be vehicles you can take anywhere, but what about whipping them through countless left turns or flogging them past 200mph? Yasid Design dreamed up a Land Rover Defender rendering inspired by NASCAR that looks so good it seems like something the British behemoth should…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Volata Bicycles Have a Built-In Computer

Conceived of by an automotive engineer in California and a bicycle designer in Milan, Volata Bicycles combine the best high tech features that Silicon Valley has to offer with the best high end design out of Italy. Each Volata bicycle is as smart as it is functional and gorgeous thanks…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Death Machines of London Built a Bike in Honor of Hunter S. Thompson

Built as an homage to Hunter S. Thompson, Death Machines of London's (DMOL) new UYC bike (that's Up Yours Copper, in case you were curious) is a testament to what can be accomplished when blood, sweat, tears, time and cost are less important to a maker than creating a masterful…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
Dining at New York’s Most Secret Restaurant

You’ve heard of speakeasies, but have you heard of speak-eateries? A growing trend of sometimes pop-up sometimes permanent, but always secret, restaurants are spreading throughout the United States. The most common type, and the hardest to get into, are referral only and that is the catch to eating at one…

By Drew Haas
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Transportation
1990 Lamborghini LM002 Rambo Lambo

Otherwise known as the Rambo Lambo, the Lamborghini LM002 is their sport utility that was produced in small numbers between 1986 and 1993. When we say small numbers, we're talking around 300 total, but this model with the America Final Edition upgrades were limited to 48. One of those 48…

By Cooper Fleishman
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