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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
Gear
Jupe Flat-Pack Shelters

When we first heard about Jupe, they were focused on the growing concern of lack of hospital room beds with the Jupe Health Designs Mobile Units. That same attention to detail, focus on portability and easy-up shelter construction has transitioned into the Jupe Flat-Pack Shelters you see here. Whether you're…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Custom BRX Hunter T1 for Dakar

Prodrive--one of the world's most successful multi-disciplinary race outfits--has partnered with Mumtalakat--the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain--to create an entirely new race team called Bahrain Raid Xtreme (BRX for short) that will be competing starting with the Dakar Rally in 2021. What do you do when you…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Sebring Winning 1974 BMW 3.5 CSL IMSA “Batmobile” Auction

When it comes to tuner brands you can trust to take your performance vehicles and make them even better, there are few shops we'd trust as much Alpina--especially when it comes to BMWs. For as long as we can remember--going back almost four decades--Alpina has been transforming BMWs into even…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
One of the Original ‘A-Team’ Vans is Going to Auction

The A-Team is a mid 80s classic that next to none of us actually grew up watching, but remains a part of the cultural zeitgeist because we're all aware of characters like Hannibal Smith, Templeton "Face" Peck, "Howling Mad" Murdock and Bosco "B.A" Baracus aka Mr. T. Even if you've…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Nissan Design America GT-R (X) 2050 Concept

There are more than a few prototype cars we always wished would be constructed, but for one reason or another, would never see the light of day. Nissan Design America was so enthralled with the GT-R (X) 2050 concept--much like the rest of us--that they actually decided to build a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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