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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
Workhorse Appaloosa Motorbike

The Sultans of Sprint race series at Monza’s “The Reunion” is a glorious celebration of two-wheeled speed and style. It’s for this special event that Indian Motorcycles partnered with Belgium-based Workhorse Speedshop to create a straight line monster known as the Workhorse Appaloosa, the likes of which the world has…

By Amos Kwon
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Nmoto Made a Modern Version of the Iconic BMW R7 Motorcycle

During the height of the Art Deco movement, BMW developed and a built a very special prototype motorcycle inspired by the style that was so unlike anything else the brand had produced it would never see production. The BMW R7 prototype would eventually become a box of parts in a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
A Galaxy Far, Far Away Playing Cards

Whether it's a game of rummy by the fire for bragging rights or poker night with a few bucks on the line, every man needs a great deck of playing cards at the ready. Max Dalton is a graphic artist out of Buenos Aires, Argentina that wants to inject a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Bengala Bentayga² Is Basically a Road-Legal Bentley Tank

We're all for upgrading luxury chariots into more capable vehicles. The Bentley Continental GT "Ultratank" certainly checks all the boxes when it comes to functionality and sheer absurdity, but it's at the expense of the style, substance and ride quality we've come to expect from the bespoke British manufacturer. If…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
1984 Toyota Land Cruiser G43-S by FJ Company

Modding a vintage ride takes tremendous skill. Restomodding properly means keeping the aesthetic true to its original form outside while imbuing it with interior modernity and fresh under-the-hood power. This takes skill, as well as a vision of the past and the future and a fair amount of restraint. FJ…

By Amos Kwon
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