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Lifestyle

Inspiration for elevated living: the best in food, drinks, home, travel, health, entertainment & more.

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
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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
7 Movies We Don’t Like Nearly as Much as Rotten Tomatoes Does

Obviously Rotten Tomatoes can’t get it right every time and that idea swings the other way as well. Sometimes movies come out and kill it on the Tomatometer, and we don’t understand why. That’s not to say we didn’t like the movie, because we often did. We just didn’t think…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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8 Moth Stories Every Man Should Listen To

Who doesn’t love a good story? Quite frankly, we can’t get enough of them. That’s why, to us, The Moth, a live series dedicated to giving ordinary people a place to tell their extraordinary stories, is one of the best programs ever. We've talked briefly about it before, but we…

By Maxwell Barna
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Step Inside A Ma Maniere’s “Living” Concept in Washington DC

We all want to be surrounded by the things we love, but building a collection of cult-status furnishings, gear and home goods can take a lifetime. If you don't want to wait, check out A Ma Maniere's "Living" Concept that was recently unveiled in the capitol. The new boutique from…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
How to Easily Make the Best Ice Cream at Home

One day it occurred to us that ice cream makers exist, yet we keep spending tons of money on ever shrinking cartons at the grocery store. Frankly, that’s some absurd behavior. We decided to end it, or at least drastically cut back. From now on, you can consider us official…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The Coolest Cars You’ve Never Heard Of

Whether you’re interested in the domestics, gassers, tuners, classics, muscle cars, exotics, rare oddities, or any of the literal dozens of automobile sub-genres, there’s one thing about every car geek that unites us all: We all love learning something new. It’s why we are always looking for cars we didn’t…

By Maxwell Barna
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