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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
Girls With Guns: An Appreciation of This Action-Packed Movie Genre

Action cinema’s “girls with guns” subgenre seems an unlikely source of prestige, going by name alone, and the bodies that arbitrate movies’ cultural value - the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for instance - seem to agree. Institutions like AMPAS rarely honor action films of any sort, save…

By Andy Crump
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Home
Dyson 360 Vis Nav Robot Vacuum

Robot vacuum cleaners are available everywhere, but Dyson hasn't made one until now. The 360 Vis Nav is the brand's first robot vacuum, and it might just dethrone the Roomba. Dyson claims it will be the most powerful robot vacuum available with twice the power of the nearest competition. It…

By Amos Kwon
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Drinks
Jim Beam Just Launched Another New Series of Limited Whiskeys Under the Hardin Creek’s Line

As any serious whiskey drinker knows, the barrel, location, and years it ages are almost as important as the distillate that goes in at the beginning of the process. While we're not huge fans of the basic offerings that come from the James B. Beam Distilling Co.--except when it comes…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
6 Stouts and Porters That Are Made For Summer Drinking

Stouts (and porters) are the victim of a psychosomatic epidemic. Before people ever have one, they’re told a single pint will sit in their stomach like a brick or a loaf of bread or a full meal, and that the beer won't be as refreshing as a crisp lager or…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Drinks
What to Drink This Weekend: Gimlet

Looking for a new cocktail to try out this weekend? Want to wind down with a fresh new drink? We’ve got you covered. Here’s what you should drink this weekend. The official start to summer is fast approaching and we're already feeling the heat here at Cool Material HQ. The…

By John A. Paradiso
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