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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
1964 Lincoln Continental Convertible

The late '50s and early '60s saw the American automobile blow up in size like Violet Beauregarde. Large and in charge was the name of the game, and a fourth-gen Lincoln Continental Convertible certainly followed suit. This particular 1964 Lincoln Continental Convertible is something else. A custom tungsten wrap gives…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Credit Card Chess Set

We're always on the hunt for backseat time-wasters to help during road trip lulls. Now you can play a game of chess without pawns sliding all over the board that's far too large for the middle seat. The Credit Card Chess Set slips into a wallet and emerges to offer…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
Island Defender Re-Imagined the Truck From ‘Jurassic World’ as a Land Rover

At some point, we've all thought about what would happen to a movie or a TV show if the cars the characters used were switched up. Markus Hammarberg of Stockholm Design decided to make that idea a reality by re-envisioning the vehicles from Jurassic World/Jurassic Park as if Land Rover…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The Best New Podcasts to Listen to This Spring

Podcasting is still a relatively new industry, so there isn’t really a season in the way that television debuts fall dramas or film pumps out summer blockbusters. As such, there’s no set time of year that someone looking for new podcasts should start their search back up. Instead, it falls…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Transportation
NASA X-Plane

Why is supersonic commercial travel not prevalent? Simple: Noise. Air transport would be a lot different today if the Concorde didn't produce a sonic boom when in motion, in turn scaring the shit out of everyone below. Instead of encouraging everyone to buy earplugs, NASA wants to tackle the issue…

By Mike Newman
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