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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
Airbus Flying Car Concept

The hits from the Geneva Motor Show just keep on coming because the Airbus flying car concept also drives. Built in partnership with Italdesign, the Airbus Pop.Up Concept is part flying car, part drone and part autonomous personal transportation vehicle. The modular concept centers around a part system that involves…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
8 Food Shows Actually Worth Watching

Here at Cool Material, we’re huge fans of the culinary arts, and it definitely shows in the material we cover. We’ve done stories on some of our favorite cookbooks, roundups of the world’s best kitchen tools… Hell, we even put out a whole story about cast-iron skillets. We love food, we…

By Maxwell Barna
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Food
Discover the World’s Best Small-Batch Hot Sauces With Fuego Box

Your local grocery store stocks the same half-dozen hot sauces that every other grocery store stocks. It's a taste bud buzzkill. If you crave flavor, heat, and variety, you need a better option. Fuego Box is a hot sauce of the month club that sends you some of the most…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
St Brooklyn Motorcycles ‘L’Etonnante’

Depending on which translation service you ask, this absolutely gorgeous custom BMW bike from St Brooklyn Motorcycles dubbed "L'Etonnante" is "The Amazing," "The Surprising," or "The Astonishing." After seeing the bike we're inclined to agree with all of them. What started as a 1955 BMW Sprint Racer was built over…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Metal Skull Microphones

In this age of podcasting, everyone should have access to a high quality microphone. Not only that, but it should be something customized to recorder's tastes. If those tastes are the straightforward microphones we've been using forever, that's fine. But also know you could be podcasting into the back of…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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