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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
Fan-Made Movie Posters Better than the Originals

The key to a great movie poster is capturing the atmosphere of the film. Those ensemble posters you see on blockbusters might satisfy actors’ agents, but for the audience, we miss out on crucial details, like genre, plot, and sometimes even the title. When we look at a poster, we…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Transportation
Auto Fabrica Type 0.1 Is the Minibike of Your Dreams

When we were growing up, BMX bikes were the coolest things on two wheels that we were allowed to ride solo. If the Auto Fabrica Type 0.1 Minibike existed back then we probably would have tried harder to convince our parents that we really needed what essentially amounts to a miniature…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Limited Edition Ai Weiwei Works for Sale on eBay

Ai Weiwei, the world-renowned artist and activist, has teamed up with the Public Art Fund, New York City's premier presenter of contemporary outdoor art, to put on a unique, 300+ site exhibition this fall that will span all five boroughs. The exhibition is called "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
James Jannard of Red Cameras Lives in a Bond Lair

James Jannard is the founder of Oakley and Red Digital Cinema Camera Company, an owner of multiple islands and now, the proud inhabitant of his very own Bond lair in the Trousdale section of Beverly Hills. Working with the firm iDGroup, this brutalist citadel was constructed with exposed concrete and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
East Coast Defender Project KSD

If you're not familiar with East Coast Defender, you don't read Cool Material too often. We're kinda fanboys. That's why we're more than a little excited about their latest build, Project KSD. The handcrafted Malibu Edition Defender 110 marks an exciting new chapter in the ECD story. That's because Project KSD is the…

By Mike Newman
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