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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
It Took Almost Four Decades to Make This Scale Model of Ancient Rome

For most of us, time travel is limited to works of fiction and the Wayback Machine. Italian architect Italo Gismondi is making it more of a reality with what we presume to be his life's work, Plastico di Roma Imperiale. Plastico di Roma Imperiale--aka Model of Imperial Rome--is a 1:250…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Hookie Co. Yard Built “Grasshopper” Yamaha XSR700

Hookie Co. has modded the 689cc Yamaha XSR700 concept twin into something ruggedly futuristic. Though Hookie kept the original frame and chassis, it added parts like a handcrafted aluminum tank, a new aluminum seat rail portion, a new mounting plate, unique angled 3D printed flourescent orange acrylic panels, a new…

By Amos Kwon
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Gear
Rightline Gear Moki Doorstep

Sometimes a product is so simple yet so ingenious, you have to wonder why no one thought of it. That's exactly where the Moki Doorstep fits in. This bright orange aircraft aluminum car step is a single piece apparatus that hooks into your car's looped door latch and allows you…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Banksy Crashed a Century Old Art Exhibition in Venice

The Venice Art Biennale is an international exhibition in Venice that's been running on odd numbered years since the late 1800s. It's the original biennale contemporary art exhibition on which all others are based, so it's a pretty big and prestigious deal. Which makes it the perfect kind of event…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Ford GT “Merkury 4”

The third-generation of the Ford GT might be the most exotic with its flying buttresses and tapered body, but Chief Designer Camilo Pardo loves the gen 2 car the most, and it echoes the gen-1 (GT40) legend from Le Mans the most in terms of design. Now, a super-rare gen-2…

By Amos Kwon
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