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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
The Carvana Car Vending Machine

The car buying experience is pretty awful. You spend most of it waiting for the salesperson to finish making copies. By the time you leave, you're not even that excited about the new car you just bought. A better—or at least quicker—process can be had with Carvana. The company just introduced a…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Gear Patrol Magazine

The guys over at Gear Patrol kinda have a thing for adventure. So much so, in fact, that their adventure coverage has now spilled out of their site and onto the printed page. The first issue of their magazine takes readers to stops around the U.S., Canada, Chile, and Norway, as the crew takes…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Stormtrooper Helmets for Animals

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is on the horizon, and much like everyone else, we’re completely stoked to see what unfolds in Abrams’ take on the franchise (even if Jar Jar Binks doesn’t end up being a master Sith Lord). New York-based designer Blank William clearly has a bit of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
‘Star Wars’ Characters as Ancient Greek Statues

Zeus, Athea, Darth Vader. All powerful, and now all honored in the same way. Travis Durden, a Parisian artist with no relation to a fictional character, has taken a few Star Wars characters and given them the ancient Greek statue treatment. The collection, which is on display at Galerie Sakura, includes Darth…

By Mike Newman
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Food
The Perfect Lowball Glass for All Beverages

For almost a decade, YETI has been making some of the most ridiculously well built coolers on the market. The coolers do their job perfectly, but you can't very well drink whiskey or coffee out of cooler. That's where The Rambler Lowball comes in. Designed to be the perfect vessel…

By Cooper Fleishman
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