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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
Features
The 3 Best Cocktails To Put in a Flask

Flasks are perfect for whiskey and other straight spirits. But sometimes you want something that brings different flavors and a lower ABV. Enter the flask cocktail. When it comes to times that it'd be nice to have a cocktail in a flask, I’m thinking first of weddings. There are plenty…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Transportation
BMW XM Label Red

Although we wouldn't call this beast attractive, it certainly will turn heads. The XM Label Red is the top dog in the Bimmer M setable with 738 horsepower coming from its M Hybrid system (a 577 hp M TwinPower Turbo V8 + a 194 hp electric motor). 0-60 mph comes…

By Amos Kwon
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Features
10 Bargain Rums Under $30 That Taste More Expensive Than They Are

Rum is a distilled spirit made by fermenting and distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. It’s then bottled and sold as white rum or matured in oak barrels (and sometimes spiced). Rum is made almost everywhere in the world where sugarcane is grown. Obviously, the Caribbean and places like Jamaica,…

By Christopher Osburn
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Gear
Days on Tracks Alpaca Camper 1

You'd never guess what Hookie Co. has been up to lately. It just started a new brand known as Days on Tracks, and it builds...pop-up campers. The DOT Alpaca is a single unit that incorporates the rooftop tent, rooftop loading area, and opening window hatches. The tent attaches to the…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
The 5 Horror Movies You Should See After Watching ‘Evil Dead Rise’

So you’ve just gotten out of the theater after seeing Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise, and you’re in need of both a fresh pair of drawers and a pick-me-up tonic to recover from the experience (and not necessarily in that order). Fine, good, makes sense. Nothing like a hot chocolate…

By Andy Crump
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