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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
2017 Porsche Panamera Turbo Redesign

The retractable rear spoiler, while cool as f*ck, is not a new concept. VW had an active spoiler on their Corrado all the way back in 1988. But, with the introduction of the 2017 Panamera Turbo, Porsche is taking things to a whole new level. At the designated speed, the…

By Kevin McCauley
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Features
‘The Race of Gentlemen’ Shot on Film

The Race of Gentlemen is an event that just begs to be shot on film. The antique machines and old school style make lugging around an antique camera feel not only natural, but necessary. Deciding to shoot film gave me a chance to break from the fast-paced action of TROG, meter the light,…

By Matt Faisetty
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Entertainment
Mindless Violence Coloring Book

If your adult coloring book collection didn't seem bloody, gory, angry or hilarious enough, there's this Mindless Violence Coloring Book from Modern Toss. If you've never heard of Modern Toss, it's an international cult comic from Jon Link and Mic Bunnage that's equal parts degenerately funny and imaginatively foul-mouthed. The…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The Vanual Is a Site Dedicated to VanLife

If you're all about that #VanLife but you've never known were to start, The Vanual is for you. The Vanual is a website that details the entire process that filmmaker / designer / art director Zach Both went through while converting an electrician's old 2003 Chevy Express cargo van into…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Whitey Bulger’s Assets Were Sold at Auction

James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger, Jr., boss of the Winter Hill Gang and the person Johnny Depp played in Black Mass, had all of his assets seized in 2011 from his hideout in Santa Monica, and the U.S. Marshals sold everything to the tune of over $100k in a recent asset…

By Cooper Fleishman
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