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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
Aaron Beck Kuda Project

Look at New Zealander Aaron Beck's extensive video game design and film resume, and his post-apocalyptic flat black testosterone savage of muscle car makes complete sense. It looks like it was driven straight off the set of Mad Max: Fury Road, a film on which Beck worked, and the shoe…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Bajaboard Pantera

Normal skateboards can be small and rather simple vehicles of death to the uninitiated or to the unrehearsed daredevil. Add electric power, shocks, off-road tires, and a 45 mph top speed, and you have a recipe for both crazy fun and the kind of road rash that will require hospitalization…

By Amos Kwon
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Home
This Table Has Legs Made from Pieces of the Golden Gate Bridge

We've created quite a few (what we thought, anyway) impressive pieces of furniture of the years that combined live edge wood with industrial materials like gas pipe and concrete. As proud as we were of our work, we'd happily trade any of those pieces in for something from Strands of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
NXT Rage Electric Motorcycle Protoype

NXT Motors is a new European electric bike startup that was founded on the values of experience, excitement and environment. They just unveiled their first creation, the NXT Rage, at the international bike show Motorbeurs Utrecht in the Netherlands this past week. We know there's a functional prototype, but unfortunately,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Bentley Bentayga Speed is the World’s Fastest SUV

The Bentley Bentayga Speed is a bit of an answer to a question no one asked. The "regular" Bentayga is already a bespoke rocket sled that hurtles its mass at alarming speeds via a twin-turbo W12 (yes, that's two mated V6s). But Bentley wasn't happy losing the "world's fastest SUV"…

By Amos Kwon
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