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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
Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX Concept 750-Mile Electric Car

Details are scant, but it looks like Mercedes wants to bring a hurtin' on Telsa when it comes to EV range. The 2020 Tesla Model S Long Range Plus recently cracked the 400-mile barrier, and Lucid Motors' Air is purported to get 517 miles, so news of Mercedes-Benz' 750-mile range…

By Amos Kwon
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Home
The Redesigned Google Nest Thermostat

The Google Nest smarthome thermostat has become a fixture in many homes with its ability to manage indoor climate like a champ. It's been recently redesigned to look less like a metallic hockey puck in order to stand out less and meld better with home decor. What's more, the rotating…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Kings Wild Project Haunted 8’s Playing Cards

Jack Robinson's original Haunted 8's playing cards have been revived with a design update that uses foil trim for an added measure of vintage creepiness, bordering on medieval. Each card gets a detailed design and should make for some seriously entertaining games this Halloween season. Festooned with copious amounts of…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Amazon Prime Day 2020 [Updating Regularly]

Amazon Prime Day is back again to bring you another iteration of "Black Friday in July" with steep discounts on, well, pretty much everything. Yes, there will be a lot of junk on sale that the Internet will endlessly deride Amazon for with clever hashtags, but there will also be…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Deus Ex Machina x Zero Customs Electric Motorcycle

When it comes to electric motorcycles, you won't find better options than what the team at Zero Motorcycles is producing. When it comes to vintage styling and modern performance--that is perhaps a little bit less electrified--you can't go wrong with Deus Ex Machina. If you want the best of both…

By Cooper Fleishman
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