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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
If You Enjoy Playing ‘Fallout’ and ‘Doom’, You Need To Try This Underrated Video Game

I spent most of my unvaccinated days in the pandemic combing Steam for new games and, truthfully, I don’t actually remember buying Prey. What I remember is a three day binge in February 2021 and being thankful that I spent those three days immersed in an exciting suspense/survival simulator rather…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Features
Mount Gay 1703 Rum Is As Complex and Enjoyable As Your Favorite Whiskeys

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. There’s something poetic about rum: ambrosia squeezed from the cane’s rugged stalk, perfume of the Tradewinds captured in a glass, nectar as dark and seductive as a tropical night.…

By Johnny Motley
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Drinks
Bring Cold Therapy to Your Yard With This Cold Plunge Tub

If you haven't yet experienced the myriad benefits of a cold plunge, you don't know what you're missing. From elevated energy levels and boosted recovery, to increased performance and improved circulation, there are a lot of real benefits to throwing yourself into a freezing bath on the regular. As it…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The Best Classic Movies on Netflix You Can Watch Right Now

Pulp Fiction. The Dark Knight. Schindler’s List. Each of these films enjoy a spot in film’s pantheon, and qualify as modern classics. This will inevitably make more than a few folks who grew up in these movies’ eras wither on the spot. For them, “classic” refers to films made before…

By Andy Crump
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Drinks
Fellow’s Fabulous Ode Brew Coffee Grinder Has Been Upgraded to Version 2

Almost five years ago, we talked about the then revolutionary Fellow Ode Coffee Grinder. While that particular stylish iteration of the coffee grinder is more than capable of delivering perfectly processed beans for cold brew, pour over, drip and press applications, the latest--Fellow Ode Brew Coffee Grinder 2--does it all…

By Cooper Fleishman
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