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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
Anatomy in Black Coffee Table Book

The human body is a fantastically complex machine that still has plenty of mysteries to unlock, but we know enough things about human anatomy to have some really cool books about it. Few, if any, of them look anywhere near as good as Anatomy in Black. Using double page spreads…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Steve McQueen’s 1963 Triumph Bonneville Desert Sled

You remember the scene in The Great Escape when Steve McQueen escaped the Nazi’s by jumping a Triumph over a fence? That was actually McQueen’s friend and stuntman Bud Ekins on the bike. This is important because Ekins would go on to custom build McQueen this 1963 Triumph Bonneville specifically…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Zarooq Sand Racer

Mention UAE to most people and a few words come to mind, usually oil and money. But that ain’t all kids. From the newest car brand in the United Arab Emirates comes the first UAE-produced car, sort of. Presenting the Zarooq Sand Racer. With a silhouette not unlike the BMW…

By Kevin McCauley
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Entertainment
The Pizza Book

If we're being completely honest, we've only attempted to make pizza from scratch at home a few times. It never came out right. We're experts at pre-heating the oven and cooking someone else's hard work, but we've never been able to get that same quality you'd get by just going…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
The Magnetic Key Catch

After getting dressed, having a bite to eat, and grabbing our everyday carry, the last thing we do before we leave the house is hit the lights. So what better place to store keys than on that light switch? The Key Catch will make forgetting your keys a thing of…

By Mike Newman
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