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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
Bridgestone Airless Bicycle Tires

Every bicycle has some kind of spokes in the wheel and it was generally understood that they stopped at the tires. Now, to create their air-free tires, Japanese company Bridgestone has extended the spoke concept to include the tires as well. Using their patented air-free concept, something the company originally…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Food
Toast Ale Is Brewed With Surplus Bread

In an effort to combat food waste and make delicious beer in the process, Toast Ale is brewed with surplus bread. Founded in the UK by author and international food waste activist Tristram Stuart, Toast Ale takes fresh, surplus bread and uses it to create an incredibly drinkable Pale Ale…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
What to Watch This Weekend: Bill Nye Saves the World

With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend, a series in which we give you our pick for the best new show or…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Take a Virtual Reality Tour of the Playboy Mansion

You can now take a virtual reality tour of the Playboy Mansion. Led by Cooper Hefner, Playboy's Chief Creative Officer and son of the infamous Hugh, you'll get as up close and personal as possible without actually being there as you explore all the cool areas of the house that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Own Matthew McConaughey’s Truck From ‘True Detective’

Looking for an interesting, new-to-you pickup truck that isn't short on character or mileage? Now's your chance to own Matthew McConaughey's Ford F250 from True Detective. The pickup truck driven by Rust Cohle through one of the most epic seasons of television ever was donated by writer Nic Pizzolatto and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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