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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
Food
A Bar in Kentucky Is Selling Pappy Van Winkle at Cost for One Night Only

Thanksgiving is coming early this year. This Sunday, November 18, find your way to Lexington, Kentucky, for "Pappy Thanksgiving," a bonkers event at the Chevy Chase Inn—the city's oldest bar—where they'll pour different Pappy expressions at cost. Yes, at cost. That means a 1.5-ounce pour of Old Rip Van Winkle…

By Mike Newman
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Features
The Highest Rated Cheap Whiskey

Bucket list booze is great, but some of us enjoy drinking on a near-daily basis. We need cheap whiskey in order to do that. Just because you can’t splash the cash doesn’t mean you can’t drink well. Some of the best tasting whiskey can be had for a reasonable sum. Here’s…

By Colin Joliat
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Food
The Keurig Drinkworks Drinkmaker Will Make a Cocktail or Beer With the Press of a Button

Keurig wants to bring the simplicity it brought to preparing your morning beverages to preparing your after-work ones. The Drinkworks Drinkmaker is a new device from the brand that accepts pods designed to make cocktails, beers, and ciders. Pop in a pod for a margarita, mojito, old fashioned, White Russian,…

By Mike Newman
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Food
The Beef Jerky Advent Calendar

Gone are the days when we'd giddily look forward to each December morning so we could pop open the door of our advent calendar to reveal a piece of chocolate or small toy. Alas, with the O Holy Cow! Advent Calendar, that A.M. anticipation is not lost completely. This advent…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
This Body Kit Turns Your Suzuki Jimny Into a Mini Land Rover Defender

For the first time in 20 years, Suzuki ushered in a new generation of Jimny this year, and with it came a ton of fanfare. Clearly with that much excitement, a lot of new Jimnys will hit roadways in 2019. If you want your Jimny to stand out from the…

By Mike Newman
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