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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
Food
The Ember Mug Lets You Pick the Perfect Temperature for Your Coffee

Coffee is generally served at a crotch-scalding and definitely too hot to drink temperature of around 160°F, while the average preferred drinking temperature is somewhere around 135°F. Letting it cool without it getting so cold you can't enjoy the entire cup is normally an issue, but it doesn't have to be with…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Drink Like The Hound at the Game of Thrones Pop-Up Pub

Depending on your point of view, the drinking culture in Game of Thrones is either a bunch of functional alcoholics trying to run a kingdom or a great party with good beer (in some pretty nice horn tankards) and appetizingly simple food. If you're more in line with the latter, you…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Food
Otterbox Is Now Making Growlers

Otterbox, one of the world's most trusted phone protection and accessories companies, got their start in the '90s making water resistant boxes for the outdoors. You can finally carry your beer with the same level of protection you have for your phone because Otterbox is now making growlers. The brand…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Robbe & Berking Martelé 62-Piece Bar in a Trunk

If you're a three-martini lunch sort of guy with a ton of disposable income, we just found your new home bar. The Robbe & Berking Martelé 62-Piece Bar Set With Trunk is a handcrafted piece of imbibing excellence. What's included? Better question would be What's not included? Hand-finished silver glassware for…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
The Best Movie Fight Scenes of All Time

Fighting is a cinema staple at this point and no action-adventure would be complete without one. We love the fluid, expert fighting of modern spy movies, the magic of kung fu wire work, the brawling of aging adventure movies. They’re all exciting donnybrooks that make us want to double down…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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