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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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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
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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
A Collection of Old Bond Posters Is Up for Auction

A humongous collection of vintage movie posters is up for sale through RM Sotheby's, and while you can dig through and find plenty of gems on your own, we're taking you right to the good stuff. Fifteen old James Bond movie posters will see the gavel drop, meaning this is…

By Mike Newman
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8 Recipes for Way Better Work Lunches

Whether we’re elbows deep in a two-week project or simply slumped on a Monday morning, lunch is a welcome reprieve from our work. It’s a special hour every day where we get to politely excuse ourselves from our hectic and all-consuming work. All too often we waste this blissful opportunity…

By Maxwell Barna
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Bite Toothpaste Bits Make Tubes a Thing of the Past

Bite Toothpaste Bits is a pretty self-explanatory product, all things considered. Rather than dealing with squeeze tubes and a liquid or gel, a Bite Bit is a concentrated pill of toothpaste that’s about the size of a mint. Pop one in your mouth and bite down. Wet your toothbrush and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Mitchell Spain Ceramics

There's something about an old, rusty can of Colt 45, Quaker State, Coors Banquet, Velvet tobacco or Sta-Lube that immediately brings back great childhood memories of exploring musty garages and basements. Unfortunately, as cool as they are, they're not good for much these days except sitting pretty on a shelf.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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7 Alcoholic Punches Your Ancestors Would Want You to Drink

Alcoholic punch has suffered a bit of a dip in popularity, and by bit of a dip we mean its popularity almost completely evaporated since its peak in the 17th and 18th centuries. The invention of the cocktail eclipsed the punchbowl, although invention is a generous word, since cocktails are…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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