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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
Fashion
STEAL: Up to 80% Off Select Sale Items at Macy’s

When it comes to brand loyalty in the retail sense, no brand does more to earn your loyalty than Macy's. They have great referral benefits, rewards programs and credit terms, but most importantly, they host quite a few sales with price points their competitors just can't match. They're running a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Video Games That Are as Fun to Watch as They Are to Play

I don’t trust people when they say they like watching video games. I’ve tried that part of it, where I watch someone else play a game, and all I can think of is how badly they’re messing everything up and how differently I’d be playing and how wrong they are…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Entertainment
You Can Finally Build an A-Frame Cabin of Your Own With LEGO

Whether it's the proximity to nature, the rustic appeal, the simplicity of the design or the endless possibilities, the A-Frame cabin is something we've all thought about building at one point or another. We're not quite adventurous enough to build a cliff-hanging A-Frame cabin, and we don't yet have the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
If You Enjoy ‘The Last of Us’ Then You Need To Play This Other Post-Apocalypse Game

When everyone was first going on and on about the first Covid lockdown only lasting two weeks, I bought a PS4. I’ve read and watched enough on apocalyptic historical events to know that even fully functioning, politically healthy countries have insane difficulty in controlling new disease. Since the United States…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Drinks
What to Drink This Weekend: Hanky Panky

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. After picking up a bottle of Carpano Antica Formula this past week, it seemed eerily prescient that the Fernet-Branca Instagram…

By John A. Paradiso
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