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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
Home
Turn Your PS4 into a Classy Piece of Wood Furniture

The PS4 has never been an unattractive machine, with its modern, angular sensibilities and non-aggressiveness black coloring. But no matter how attractive a game console is, it still somehow sticks out like a sore thumb in or on an entertainment center. Covering it in wood might help though. Toast will…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Entertainment
8 New Books to Read to End the Summer

Whether you read on a tablet, Kindle, or still prefer the smell of a freshly cracked paperback, finding your next book is never easy. You could never read all the new novels, biographies, or nonfiction tomes released each week, so we’re here to help. These are a handful of the…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Transportation
The BMW Z4 Concept Is Amazing

While it's all conjecture at this point in time, this BMW Z4 Concept is amazing. Does it look like a Jaguar F-Type SVR without a roof and a BMW grill? Yes. Is this going to ultimately be the base for the new Supra since BMW and Toyota have been working…

By Cooper Fleishman
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This Designer Built a Workspace Under a Bridge

Fernando Abellanas is a self-taught designer out of Spain that responded to the current urban space shortage in Valencia by building his own private workspace under a bridge. The furniture designer that practices as Lebrel used a unique crank system with wheels and a sliding base to create a movable…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
100 Essential Films Scratch-Off Chart

Pop Chart Lab makes some of our favorite pieces of wall art on the market. The art and print shop is adding to their collection of whiskey charts, camera compendiums and cocktail posters with the 100 Essential Films Scratch-Off Chart. As the name implies, this particular 18" x 24" poster is…

By Cooper Fleishman
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