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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
The Twist Shelf Doubles as a Magnetic Board

Danish studio LAWA DESIGN creates classic pieces like pendant lamps, clocks and shelves with new twists. The LAWA DESIGN Twist Shelf is one of the best examples of this. The untreated oak shelf simply and stylishly twists from standard horizontal storage area on one side to a vertical magnetic storage…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
Lava Rocks and Glacier Water: How Reyka Vodka Makes Some of the Purest Vodka in the World

Reyka Vodka has garnered a reputation as being one of the purest vodkas in the world. Of course, that’s quite a distinction; one some more discernible boozehounds might find suspect. We traveled with the Reyka team to their distillery, located roughly an hour north of Reykjavík in the beautiful rural…

By Maxwell Barna
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10 Cocktails for Your Thanksgiving Table

We don’t know about you, but drinking beer with Thanksgiving dinner never quite felt right. Don’t get us wrong, we’ll happily do it, but we’ll do it with a slight guilt. There was already so much time spent on the dinner, what’s another fifteen minutes or so for batch mixing…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Entertainment
Human Anatomy Subway Map

Jonathan Simmonds, M.D., is a resident physician in the Department of Otolaryngology (aka head & neck surgery) who's also an incredibly talented artist and illustrator. He decided to take all the anatomy knowledge he accrued during med school and create a human anatomy diagram in the style of a London…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Wes Anderson Alphabet Poster

Wes Anderson creates movies that exist in a world all their own. Now those worlds have an alphabet. The Wes Anderson Alphabet poster from artist Abbie Paulhus is a whimsical print for your wall that displays the alphabet through characters, items, and moments pulled from Anderson's iconic films. "R" is…

By Mike Newman
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