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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
Nerf N-Strike Elite Titan CS-50 Minigun

When we think of a gun with multiple rotating barrels hurling munitions through the air at an almost inconceivable rate, we immediately go to one of two governors. It's either Arnold laying waste to police cars in Terminator 2, or the goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus that is Jesse Ventura in Predator.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
1975 Ford Bronco ‘Stroppe’ Edition By CFB

There’s no question the upcoming 2020 Ford Bronco SUV will be a huge hit, but no matter how good it is, it won’t be able to hold a candle to this 1975 Bronco ‘Stroppe’ from Classic Ford Broncos when it comes to the coolness factor. So named for renowned Baja…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
Willie Nelson Has His Own CBD-Infused Coffee

Long before we knew of and penned the piece about Willie Nelson's Pot-Fueled Poker Game, we knew the man was a legend when it came to the electric lettuce. This should come as absolutely no surprise because he's been smoking for almost twice as long as most of us has…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Black 3.0 Is the Blackest Acrylic Paint in the World

In case you're not familiar with the whole artist feud surrounding Vantablack, here's a quick primer. Vantablack is one of the darkest substances known to man and absorbs up to 99.96% of visible light. Artist Anish Kapoor secured exclusive artistic rights to Vantablack, which pissed off, well, pretty much the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
This Custom Porsche Carrera GT Was Rebuilt from the Ground Up

To this day, the Porsche Carrera GT remains one of our favorite cars to ever come out of Germany. The award-winning and downright gorgeous vehicle is getting a new lease on life more than fifteen years later with a Porsche Classic reconstruction for one very lucky (and presumably, absurdly rich)…

By Cooper Fleishman
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