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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
Kahn Design Flying Huntsman 6×6 Soft Top

If you're an avid Cool Material reader, you've heard of Kahn Design before. The team of industrial designers take lust-worthy vehicles—most often Land Rovers—and make them even more lust-worthy. After the fanfare for the Flying Huntsman 110 6x6 Double Cab Pick Up and Wide Body models unleashed earlier this year, the team…

By Mike Newman
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Features
The Return of One of the Rarest Beers of All Time, Founders CBS

It was the summer of 2012 and I was on my way to World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a Philly Beer Week event with Founders Brewing. The Michigan-based brewery was pouring a collection of their rarest beers, including the rarest, Canadian Breakfast Stout. Doors opened at 6 p.m.…

By Mike Newman
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Blue Owl Workshop ‘Fade Museum’ Puzzle

Got a denim-head on your gift list? Since buying a new pair of raw denim jeans is probably out of the question, consider this gift from Blue Owl Workshop. The denim mecca has a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle that pieces together to form an image of the store's Fade Museum.…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
The 10 Best Video Games of 2017

This past year was a solid one for video game releases. Every major genre had respectable entries, with original ideas and sequels both coming out strong. Anyone who likes gaming in any capacity, casual, hobbyists, professionals, noobs, or any level in between, will find a lot to love in 2017’s…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Features
The Shockingly Violent History of American Moonshine

Moonshine, as we know it, hasn’t been moonshine for very long. It started in England as a word to describe any work done at night by the light of the moon and wouldn’t describe illegal liquor until the late 1800s. The practice of distilling moonshine also didn’t start as a…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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