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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
The INKAS Superior Is a Transport Vehicle for All Conditions

Bachelor party somewhere perfectly remote? Ditch the party bus that won't make it a foot off paved terrain and get yourself the INKAS Superior, a multipurpose vehicle built to transport personnel in any and all conditions. Clearly designed more for law enforcement and military than weekends with the boys, the…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
9 Real-World Locations You Can Explore in Video Games

Video games have always been a form of vicarious travel. Halo takes you to alien planets. Alan Wake shows off the Pacific Northwest’s capacity for ghost stories. Tomb Raider takes you across the modern world and into ancient ruins. Only thing? All those places are fictional. Some games do the exact opposite.…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Home
Upgrade Your Bathroom with a Set of Plush Towels from Parachute

When was the last time you picked up new towels for your bathroom? Did they come from the local big box store? You owe it to yourself and your guests to upgrade your bathroom with a low-key luxury look and some new towels from Parachute. They're loomed from superior 100%…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
‘Game of Thrones’ Scotch Will Warm You Up This Winter—Which, as You May Have Heard, Is Coming

With all the hardships Tyrion Lannister has faced, we're shocked he hasn't moved on to something harder than wine. Perhaps he just needed the right tipple. Here it is. Game of Thrones partnered with a collection of Scottish distilleries to offer eight different single malts perfect for warming you up this…

By Mike Newman
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Features
11 Easy Cocktails that Don’t Suck

The downside of the recent cocktail resurgence is there are a ton of delicious recipes that depend on ingredients you can’t reasonably be expected to have at home. They’re made of things that come from countries we’ve never heard of, in glassware we thought were props in J.J. Abrams's latest…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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