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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
The Worst Used Cars You Can Buy, According to Consumer Reports

If you're in the market for a used car, the following list is worth a minute. Consumer Reports compiled a list of 108 vehicles from the last decade (technically 2007-2016) with "much-worse-than-average reliability." Since buying a used car is already like navigating a minefield, this sort of guidance can only help.…

By Mike Newman
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Features
Volvo Ditched the Auto Show and Unveiled Its New Station Wagon at a Villa in Stockholm

Auto shows have served as the place for brands to come show off their new products for quite some time. From crazy concept cars, to new technology, or even just the upcoming year’s latest production models, if it didn’t debut at one of the big shows, it hardly mattered at…

By Maxwell Barna
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Entertainment
Photographer Reuben Wu Uses Drones to Light Mountainous Landscapes

Throughout his career, Chicago-based photographer Reuben Wu has traveled the globe taking magical pictures of everything from solar farms to the open road. In his latest project, Lux Noctis, Reuben Wu uses drones to light mountainous landscapes in ways that make them seem alien and and untouched. The award-winning series…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
The BMW M8 Gran Coupe Concept Is Inspired by the Northern Lights

The team at BMW looked to the sky for inspiration when they were crafting the M8 Gran Coupe Concept. More precisely, they looked to the Northern Lights. The shimmering green and blue of the exterior is meant to bring to mind that stunning display in the sky. No matter the…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
7 Documentaries That Will Piss You Off

Sometimes documentaries are meant to inspire us; sometimes they’re meant to excite us. Yet, other times, they’re meant to make us angry. They’re meant to devastate us and alter us in ways that we can’t undo, and maybe push us to take action. They smack us like a tidal wave and…

By Maxwell Barna
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