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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
Transportation
You Can Own McLaren’s First Street-Legal Car

In 1969, McLaren unleashed the M6GT Coupe on the world. Okay, they unleashed precisely three of them, but the model was still the first street-legal vehicle to come out of the McLaren factory. Powered by a 5.0-liter Chevy V8, this is one of those three bonkers prototypes, and it's the…

By Mike Newman
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Food
Williams Family Kitchen Nono Sauce

Pharrell Williams knows how to make a hit record. We still find ourselves humming N.E.R.D. tracks occasionally. What we didn't know is that his fam can also crank out hits from the kitchen. Their secret? Nono Sauce. Based on a family recipe from Pharrell's old man, Nono Sauce is sweet…

By Mike Newman
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Food
gBoost™ by Synapse Will Upgrade Your Brain

Want to upgrade your brain? Look no further than the gBoost™ nootropic supplement from Synapse. With its combination of seven natural ingredients, gBoost™ is one of the easiest ways to improve verbal fluency, motivation, working memory, mood, focus, mental energy and overall cognitive function. Created for ambitious people looking for…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
8 Books That Will Inspire You to Live Minimally

When we’re young, we focus on all the things we want. We think about the space we’d like to one day have, and what we want to fill it with. Beautiful furniture, toys, clothes—lots of stuff. But as we get older (and maybe have to move apartments a couple times),…

By Maxwell Barna
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Transportation
1984 Mercedes-Benz 240 GD

The G-Wagens of yesteryear were little like their modern, elegant offspring. The old fogies were raw beasts better suited for an excursion than a trip to Target. If you want a little of that rugged G-Class history in your driveway, you're in luck. Hitting the auction block at the Auburn…

By Mike Newman
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