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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
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Ford Noise-Canceling Kennel

You might enjoy the flare and fury of fireworks, but your dog suffers miserably with all manner of shaking, barking, whining, and cowering. There is no remedy until now, and it comes from the folks at Ford Motor Company of all places. Apparently, instead of building sedans, they’re taking the…

By Amos Kwon
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Bandit9 Built a Custom Bike for Royal Enfield

In our opinion, custom shop Bandit9 is wholly incapable of making a bad motorcycle. Take one look at their previous creations like the Eve Liquid Black, Dark Side or L-Concept bikes, and we're sure you'll agree they make some of the sleekest, meanest and all-around original pieces of rolling art…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
This LEGO Kit Lets You Build Your Own Leica M Camera

When it comes to our favorite things that start with the letter L, LEGO and Leica are pretty high up on the list. Combining the two of them is an absolute no brainer, which is exactly what Chris McVeigh did with his LEGO Leica M Camera Kit. If that name…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The Best Books of 2018

There were so many books published last year we can’t believe people are still talking about print dying. As a society, haven’t we put that concern to bed? If you still doubt it, just look at 2018’s published works. The diversity of the field was crazy high, with stories we’ve…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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This Incredibly Rare 1964 Ferrari 275 GTB Prototype Is Heading to Auction

We're all for the technology, design and and construction innovations in the world of motoring that are consistently making modern cars faster, lighter and more impressive than anything that's come before. But for our money (if we had that kind of money), you can keep the Ferrari 488 Pistas, LaFerraris…

By Cooper Fleishman
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