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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
Entertainment
Pitmaster: Recipes, Techniques, and Barbecue Wisdom

Whether you're interested in cooking the barbecue basics like Memphis-style ribs or the more advanced like smoking a whole hog North Carolina style, Andy Husbands and Chris Hart's latest tome, Pitmaster, is the perfect reference material. Pitmaster: Recipes, Techniques, and Barbecue Wisdom explores barbecue through a lens of regional restaurant traditions…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
What to Drink This Weekend: Walnut Sazerac

It’s bold to try to update a classic cocktail like the sazerac, but mixologist Johnny Swet from The Rickey at Dream Downtown in New York City did just that. The base, like any good sazerac, is rye whiskey. It also contains Nocello Walnut Liquor, absinthe, Peychud’s Bitters,  and a lemon…

By Christopher Osburn
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Transportation
Bentley EXP 12 Speed 6e

Electric cars have been building some serious momentum lately and they just got a huge boost from Bentley. Their much loved EXP 10 Speed 6 coupe concept was updated to become the EXP 12 Speed 6e, a fully electric car befitting the Bentley name. If all we had was a glance,…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Food
Mucha Liga Tequila Comes in a Luchador Mask Bottle

There are plenty of tequilas out there that come in unique packages, but none are as cool as Much Liga Tequila. Whether you're interested in the Blanco, Reposado or Añejo, each option from Mucha Liga Tequila comes in a luchador mask bottle. Don't let the mask bottles with red, white and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Starbucks Now Has Whiskey Barrel Aged Coffee

It's not a very well kept secret that the best coffee from Starbucks comes from their roastery in Seattle. Their Seattle exclusive offerings are expanding into Willy Wonka territory because Starbucks now has whiskey barrel aged coffee. Each batch of the Starbucks Reserve Whiskey Barrel Aged Sulawesi beans are frequently…

By Cooper Fleishman
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