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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
Features
What to Drink This Weekend: Cereal Circle

The Cereal Circle is an interesting cocktail. It incorporates two brandies and is driven by the breakfast flavors of Cheerios. “I wanted to work a savory flip into our seasonal menu that had an unexpected addition of flavor,” says bartender Mike Joes of Sable Kitchen & Bar in Chicago. He’s…

By Christopher Osburn
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Transportation
You Can Now Build Your Own Motorcycle in a Weekend

Fictiv, a distributed manufacturing company with a network of vendors, teamed up with Amazon and their innovative new IoT platform to create this, the Fictiv Open Source Motorcycle (FOSMC). The concept bike is built with 57 open source, modular part designs that can be built with standard prototyping technologies like…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Goby’s Electric Toothbrush Cleans Better and for Just as Long as the Dentist Recommends

We're never really sure if people like brushing their teeth. It could be something that you grow to like, like onions or broccoli, or it could be something you pretend to like so you seem like an adult, like onions or broccoli. But if there were ever a toothbrush company…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Entertainment
What to Watch This Weekend: Dave Chappelle Netflix Collection

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
Gritty Urban Architecture Miniatures

Joshua Smith is an Australian-based artist with an almost two decades long career in miniatures and stencils that have been part of over 100 exhibitions all over the world. Using everything from wood and cardboard to chalk pastels and spray paint, Smith creates 1:20 scale miniatures of gritty urban architecture…

By Cooper Fleishman
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