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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
10 Books That Will Make You Seem Smarter Than You Really Are

Books, and the ability to print them in mass, changed the course of human history. No longer was learning confined to an educated elite. Fast forward 560 years and we have more options than ever for learning, including podcasts, YouTube videos, and infographics. Yet, books still form the foundation, and a…

By Drew Haas
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Transportation
2019 Mercedes-AMG G63 G-Wagen

Now that Mercedes-Benz has fully taken the wraps off the 2019 G-Class, it's time to talk about its meaner, faster and technology more advanced big brother—the 2019 Mercedes-AMG G63. Seeing as how AMG played a large role in completely redeveloping the 2019 G-Wagen as a whole, the list of upgrades…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
9 Hemp Products that Don’t Make You Look Like a Stoner

We’re long past when it was time to abolish hemp’s dirty reputation. It’s true that it’s closely related to marijuana, but when people talk about hemp, what they generally mean is the plant that produces miniscule amounts of THC and has hundreds to tens of thousands of uses (depending on…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Entertainment
7 Video Games with Crazy Cult Followings

By every measurable standard, video games and the way we play them have advanced with technology over the last few years. They are more detailed, more complex, and more immersive than ever before. But newer isn’t always better. Some games are, quite frankly, timeless. Even with their less robust graphics…

By Maxwell Barna
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Transportation
This Corvette Stingray Sits on a Chevy Blazer Chassis

The Corvette Stingrays of the late 1970s were stunning beasts that were feared at stoplights the country over. They were not feared, however, off pavement... until now. Some mad scientist took a 1967 Stingray and mated it to a 1987 Chevy Blazer chassis to create the ludicrous vehicle you see…

By Mike Newman
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