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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
Quinny Longboard Stroller

Finding the time to squeeze in a ride on your board when you have little kids is damn near impossible, but it just got a whole lot easier with Quinny's aptly named Longboard Stroller. The product is exactly what it sounds like and combines a specially designed longboard with everything…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Surreal Science Fiction Collages by Trash Riot

Trash Riot is a prolific collage artist from Philadelphia who has a way of making science fiction / retro-futuristic images seem like something that hasn't happened yet, as opposed to something that's completely impossible. We'd spend more time discussing each and every one of the images that's available as a poster…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
The New Hendo Hoverboard

Back to the Future Day was filled with highs and lows. We saw working Air Mags, but they're going to be impossible to get. The Cubs played, but they lost and were eliminated from the playoffs. Toyota made Marty's pickup, but it's not going into production. But there was one…

By Mike Newman
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Home
Frontier Plus Is a Portable Woodburning Stove

Your outdoor experiences just got a huge upgrade thanks to Anevay Outdoor Technology's new Frontier Plus stove. Combining the best aspects of the worlds of woodburners and camping stoves, Frontier Plus is a portable woodburning stove that can be installed in everything from garden igloos and tiny houses to tents…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
‘Back to the Future’ Toyota Tacoma

It's looking less and less probable that Back to the Future correctly predicted the 2015 World Series champions—even the greatest prognosticators couldn't have seen Daniel Murphy coming—but that doesn't mean everything from the movie failed to come to fruition. For Back to the Future Day (aka "today"), Toyota turned a 2016 Tacoma into Marty's 1985…

By Mike Newman
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