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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
Honest 2016 Oscar Nominee Movie Posters

There are plenty of good, great, and completely ridiculous movies that are nominated for one Oscar or another, but the race as a whole for all the major categories is still widely undecided. The Shiznit took this opportunity to create a collection of posters based on if "2016's Oscar-nominated movie…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Warped Turkish Cityscapes by Aydin Büyüktas

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a late 19th century satirical novella that describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures. The entire thing is pretty trippy, which is probably why it—and not Inception, which is what you were all thinking—is the inspiration for Turkish artist and photographer Aydın Büyüktaş series…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Bond’s Aston Martin DB10 From ‘Spectre’ to Be Auctioned

Without a doubt, no other auto manufacturer has been associated with the James Bond franchise more than Aston Martin. To celebrate their long history together, an auction will take place at Christie’s to coincide with the DVD release of the 24th James Bond film, Spectre, and will include this Aston…

By Kevin McCauley
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Home
Shepard Fairey’s Los Angeles Home Is for Sale

Notebooks. iPhone cases. Limited Edition Hennessy. The entire OBEY brand. The Obama Hope portrait. Artist and activist Shepard Fairey has left a mark on culture as a whole that cannot be ignored. Some of the spoils from all that hard work are going to be available for one of us…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Air Bonsai Floating Plants

Bonsai culture is huge in Japan, which is what inspired Hoshinchu to create Air Bonsai. The atelier, based on the island of Kyushu in southern Japan, created a unique, DIY floating bonsai setup that kind of reminds us of a much cooler version of the levitating tops we're all familiar…

By Cooper Fleishman
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