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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
Home
F-4 Phantom II Ejection Seat

You can keep your Eames Lounge, Arne Jacobsen's Egg, and every other iconic chair ever created, we'll take this F-4 Phantom II Ejection Seat as our seat of choice every day. This genuine ejection seat from a McDonnell F-4 Phantom II fighter jet is for sale through the Boeing Store,…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Square Off Smart Chess Board

Our smartphones have made chess a game that no longer requires adversaries sit opposite each other at a table. We find this good and bad. It's good because you can always get a game, anytime, anywhere. It's bad because, well, we miss the one-on-one interaction and the tactically pleasing moves…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
The 7 Best Cookbooks of 2018

We’re food nerds. We love everything about food—the accomplished feeling of preparing something different, the joy of watching others enjoy what we’ve made, and the excitement of learning something new. Of course, we couldn’t do any of that without cookbooks. They help open new doors to otherwise unexplored corners of…

By Maxwell Barna
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Transportation
Diamond Atelier Mark II EVO

Diamond Atelier is a Munich-based motorcycle shop that's strived to offer unique cafe racer builds for the last five years. The Mark II EVO is the latest showstopper to roll out of the brand's garage. The newest in the Mark II line is also the most affordable, as the Mark…

By Mike Newman
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Home
Kanso Self-Cleaning Towel

In a perfect world, you'd be able to use the same towel everyday, for the rest of time, and it would just magically keep itself clean and dry without getting gross or smelling musty. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world. That said, the new Kanso Towels take us one…

By Cooper Fleishman
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