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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
The Lamborghini-Inspired Helicopter

The body of Bell Helicopter's FCX-001 looks more like something we'd expect out of Elon Musk's Hyperloop. Or maybe a stealth redesign of the Huey (also designed by Bell, wouldn't you know). This angular, late-20th century looking chopper comes from a challenge Bell issued to its designers. The company wanted…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Entertainment
Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter

Derived from the Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design and compiled by editors from Phaidon, Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter covers five hundred of the most influential designs produced over more than half a millennium. From the first sample of movable type and the Nuremburg Chronicle of the fifteenth century to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Human Skull Logs

There's just something about a big pile of flaming human skulls in your backyard firepit that sends the perfect message to your friends, family and neighbors. If that kind of sheer terror is something you're interested in, look no further than these fireproof human skull logs. Each skull is "about…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
The 8 Best Craft Beers That Aren’t Craft Beers

There’s a heated debate currently going on in the world of craft beer. If a small, craft brewery is sold to a giant conglomerate, but they don’t change much, are they still considered to be "craft"? Take for example the Scotch whisky industry. Pretty much every famous distillery is owned by…

By Christopher Osburn
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This Coffee Table Has a Refrigerated Drawer

If you're looking to keep the party in front of the couch without having to get up for chilled beverages the Sobro Coffee Table has a refrigerated drawer. Yes, you read that correctly. With Sobro you can have an entire game or Netflix season worth of beer, water, Red Bull,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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