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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
Transportation
Citroën Me Concept Vehicle

While there are plenty of modern electric vehicles designed or built to crush speed barriers, performance limitations or our traditional ideals of what an electric car looks like, it's not difficult to argue that the Citroën Ami Electric City Car--despite being capable--checks none of those boxes. Designed Alexandrte Pain aims to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Tesla Tequila

What industry has Elon Musk not dipped his toe into? Well, it's not booze, that's for sure. The culmination of a project that's actually been in the works for years, Telsa Tequila is finally here (and gone). The $250 Tequila in a spectacular lightning-bolt bottle is already sold out, and…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
LEGO Ghostbusters Ecto-1

We'll always love the original 1984 Ghostbusters movie. And besides Slimer, the only character to really go the distance in the film series was the Ecto-1 Ghostbusters-mobile. LEGO pays homage to the tricked out 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Futura Duplex Ambulance with its own 2,352-piece, 18.5-inch-long version. Festooned with all manner…

By Amos Kwon
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Gear
BMW Built an Electrified Wingsuit

The BMW Designworks and i branches have been responsible for more than a few great innovations over the years--and we're not just talking about cars. We're talking about camper trailers built in collaboration with The North Face, a gaming mouse built with Thermaltake, a carbon fiber racing wheelchair and now,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Studio Motor Yamaha XS650 ‘The Skinny’

Indonesia’s Studio Motor has created a truly special vintage-style Speedway bike based on a midsize 1980 Yamaha XS650 cruiser. ‘The Skinny’ is inspired from drifting oval-track racers, and it looks like it came straight from the early 20th century when this type of racing circuit was popular in New Zealand…

By Amos Kwon
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