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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
The 8 Best ‘Mythbusters’ Episodes of All Time

When Mythbusters first aired 13 years ago (on the Discovery Channel, of all networks), no one—including the show’s hosts, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman—knew just how successful or special it would be. And throughout the program’s TV tenure, it would accomplish a feat many a high school biology and chemistry…

By Maxwell Barna
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Transportation
2017 Lincoln Navigator Concept

Only days away from the official opening of the 2016 New York International Auto Show, Lincoln gave an early peek at what the future holds for its flagship Navigator. In contrast to its largest competitor, the Cadillac Escalade and its aggressive lines, the 2017 Navigator is deliberately softer, more refined…

By Kevin McCauley
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Transportation
Jaguar Is Building 9 XKSS Supercars By Hand

Here is an interesting bit of Jaguar history: In the 1950s, after withdrawing from road racing, Jaguar had about 25 of its highly successful D-Type race cars in storage at their Browns Lane factory. At the time, demand for European sports cars in the United States was at an all-time…

By Kevin McCauley
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Home
UX4 DIY Furniture Kit

SWENYO, a new home goods company, has partnered with DIY expert Ben Uyeda (the guy behind the Concrete + Iron Pipe Bar Table and the Pipe Bench that we told you about before) to create the UX4, a unique set of steel brackets that allows you to turn 2x4s into…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Maple Syrup and Hot Sauce Aged in Pappy Van Winkle Barrels

Hunting down a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle is often a fruitless endeavor. If you yearn for that sweet, bourbon-y goodness but can't find a bottle, there are other ways to get it. Take these offerings from Pappy & Company, for example. Both their Bourbon Barrel-Aged Pure Maple Syrup and…

By Mike Newman
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