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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
Home
Philosophy Finally Has a Men’s Skincare Line

Philosophy is finally bringing some of their twenty years of experience in the world of women's skincare to the world of dudes with a new collection of products specifically for men. The Microdelivery is a face and body scrub designed to deal with your rough and dry skin while refreshing…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
The 10 Best Rums You’ve Never Heard Of

Rum is synonymous with the Caribbean, but the islands aren’t the only producers in the game. Distillers around the world are creating sugar-based spirits with fantastic results. With unique water sources, weather, and spices, there are plenty of new flavors waiting to be discovered. You might not even know these…

By Colin Joliat
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Transportation
ICON 1000’s Triumph Dromedarii Is Built for the Apocalypse

ICON 1000--the Portland-based maker of some of the finest motorcycle riding apparel and badass bikes out there—turned a 2011 Triumph Tiger 800XC into an apocalypse-taming steed named Dromedarii. The aptly named bike (Dromedarii is also the name of the camel riding auxiliary forces used in the Late Roman Empire where…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
1967 Mustang ‘Obsidian’

Handcrafted by Matt Couper of Autoworks International, “Obsidian” blurs the line between vintage and modern. At first glance, it appears to be a modified late model Mustang, but in reality it is a one-off custom 1967 Mustang. Aptly named after a glassy volcanic rock, Obsidian features not one but two…

By Kevin McCauley
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Entertainment
8 Books You Have to Read This Summer

Summer book lists are often filled with mindless page-turners you can toss haphazardly in your beach bag. Why? Beach reads don't have to be easy and/or breezy; they just have to be good. If you're looking for some of the best books to read this summer, and you don't feel like…

By Mike Newman
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