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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
Entertainment
10 New Books You Should Read This Fall

Whether you read on a tablet, Kindle, or still prefer the smell of a freshly cracked paperback, finding your next book is never easy. You could never read all the new novels, biographies, or nonfiction tomes released each week, so we’re here to help. These are a handful of the…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Features
Decoded: Budweiser

Few beers are as quintessentially “American” as Budweiser. The lager has been around since the late 1800s and its packaging and labeling have undergone—for the most part—only slight changes. In this edition of “Decoded,” we look at one of the most iconic beer cans of all time. Photo Source 1.…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
The Gurkha CIV Is an Armored Vehicle for Civilians

If you're tired of all the existing commuter options in regard to traditional modes of transportation, why not show up to the gig in an armored vehicle? With Terradyne's new Gurkha CIV, that's a real possibility. This road-ready vehicle started life as a Ford F550 with a 6.7 L V8…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
George Woodman ‘Wild Horse’

George Woodman is a garage and atelier in the city of Biarritz in Southwestern France that puts out a few bikes a year that are all built with some amount of wood. The latest is a 1972 Honda SS50 Moped fittingly named "Wild Horse" on account of all the upgrades…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
8 Breweries About to Blow Up

By the time a brewery is on the radar of every beer-loving American, it's too late to go and enjoy it. Cans will sell out instantly, growler fills will take an eternity, and snagging a seat at the bar is akin to snagging a seat at the hottest restaurant in…

By Mike Newman
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