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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
Depict Will Help Class up Your Space with 600+ Pieces of Art

Tired of deciding between post-modern classics, alternative landscapes, abstract portraits and your personal shots to display on the walls of your home or office? With Depict, that's a thing of the past. Depict is essentially a 49" 4K UHD wall-mounted art display with a unique, matte-finish, that's paired with an…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The Venn Puzzle

If you couldn't tell from perusing the pages of Cool Material, we have a thing for desktop toys, little doohickeys to help pass the time between meetings and assignments. The latest we want to add to the collection is the Venn Puzzle from our friends at Craighill, a Brooklyn-based product…

By Mike Newman
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Fashion
Gillette Heated Razor

If you've ever experienced a hot towel shave, you know it's a luxury you could get used to if you had the time and money. With its new Heated Razor, Gillette thinks it's found a way to offer a little of that ritual to every guy—no towel needed. The Heated…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
Volkswagen Built an Off-Road Golf During the ’90s

The Volkswagen Golf has torn up streets, grabbed groceries and transported people from A to B for almost half a century. For seven generations, the Golf has remained fast, affordable, and reliable. We weren't aware Volkswagen also added an off-road Golf to its stable for a couple years in the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The Surprising Reason You Should Listen to Video Game Soundtracks at Work

Despite being pretty decent fans of video games, we have to admit they’re not productive, at least in the traditional sense. Yes, they have the potential to tell great stories and to be cinematic, as we’ve covered before, but you’re not playing those types of games all the time. The…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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