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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
By Cool Material
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
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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
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You Can Own Al Capone’s Miami Beach Mansion

If your life of organized crime has payed off handsomely, the perfect residence recently hit the market for you to kick back in. Al Capone's Miami Beach pad is up for sale. So what do you get if you drop the $15 million Scarface's mansion is listed for? How does…

By Mike Newman
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Auto Fabrica Type 11 Prototype Motorcycles

Whether you're talking old school, modified creations like the Type 6 or minibikes like the Type 0.1 that we're far too big to fit on but would still try to ride, the madmen from Auto Fabrica know how to completely reimagine a bike. Case in point: the Auto Fabrica Type…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Kobra-1 Is the Nerf Gun for Adults

Nothing against Nerf guns, but their aesthetic isn't one that screams "professional." That's okay—they are foam dart guns, after all—because Loveland Foam Armaments is here to fill the void. The Kobra-1 is a foam dart blaster designed for older and questionably more mature players. Capable of firing three Nerf darts…

By Mike Newman
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Memminger Roadster 2.7

If Volkswagen won't make the modern Beetle we all want, someone else needs to take up the task. Memminger is that someone else, as the German company just unveiled its Roadster 2.7, a vehicle the company says is what a "modern Beetle could look like." It's not like the Beetle…

By Mike Newman
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IKEA’s New Collection Includes Its First Ever Skateboard

Everyone's favorite maker of instruction manuals, Game of Thrones capes and affordable office chairs is collaborating with LA-based fashion designer Chris Stamp (aka Stampd) on a collection of furniture, home goods and clothing made for the streetwear fanatic inside all of us. The SPÄNST collection channels Stamp's minimal aesthetic and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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