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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
20 Albums You Have to Listen to Front to Back

In an age of Spotify playlists and 99-cent downloads, owning an entire album is kinda pointless. Why buy or listen to a full album when you can just grab the highlights, right? That's sound thinking ... most of the time. There are times, however, when an album is so perfect, so…

By Mike Newman
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Features
8 Ways to Cook Cheap Steak

If we had it our way, we’d be eating porterhouse and ribeye for dinner every night of the week. Then again, if we had it our way, pay day would be every day and bourbon—all of the bourbon everywhere—would be free. Unfortunately, we hardly ever get to have it our…

By Maxwell Barna
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Food
Your Go-To Drink Can Predict Your Favorite Type of Wine

Two MIT grads with a passion for wine built an algorithm that uses your favorite drink to show you the wines that you're most likely to enjoy. Answer a short quiz with questions like “what’s your go-to drink (other than wine)?” and they’ll evaluate your palate against 100+ wines to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Bowley Lock Company Model 543 High Security Padlock

Google "How to Pick a Padlock" and a collection of easy instructional videos await, many boasting that five seconds and a paperclip is all you need. We don't know about you, but to us that doesn't sound super secure. Meet Model 543 from the Bowley Lock Company. The unique key…

By Mike Newman
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Food
Morning Recovery Hangover Cure Drink

As we've gotten older our hangovers have gotten worse. Problem is, our love for bourbon and beer has not diminished in the least. In our never-ending quest to find things that help with those painful AMs, we came across Morning Recovery, a drink that's received $8 million in backing from Silicon…

By Mike Newman
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