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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
RepliCade Insert Coin Arcade Keychain

There's just something about the old school arcade cabinets that will always appeal to us. It doesn't matter if you're playing classics like Donkey Kong or Galaga on vintage machines or something more modern on a replica cabinet, games just seem to be more fun when there's a joystick instead…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
A ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’ Station Wagon Is Going to Auction

When it comes to Barret-Jackson, they more than live up to their "world's greatest collector car auctions" trademark. This year's Palm Beach auction (April 11 - 13) is full of classic cars we want to park in the garage. There's a 1968 Ford Mustang Eleanor Tribute Edition, a 1953 Buick…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
US Postal Service Unveils 50th Anniversary Apollo 11 Stamps

We're not going to pretend that we consider ourselves philatelists, but the US Postal Service has been releasing some pretty cool stamps that even we'll collect. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the USPS created two new stamps based on the event. One features…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Dogfish Head SuperEIGHT Beer Develops Kodak Film

Though we wish for a single malt whisky that can also fuel a supercar and Cuban cigar smoke that conditions our hair, we'll settle for a beer that develops film. That's right. The folks at Dogfish Head Brewery have partnered with Kodak and created a Super Gose beer crafted with…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
This $30 Bourbon Was Just Named Best Whiskey in the World

There are so many great bottles of whiskey that we want to drink that we'd have an incredibly difficult time picking a solid winner. We'll leave that to the more than 40 professionals at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition that sampled more than 3,000 spirits last weekend during the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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