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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
Ink Made Out of Air Pollution

For the most part, our atmospheric carbon capturing solutions revolve around planting more trees. It's definitely an effective way to sequester carbon, but we shouldn't limit our thinking to just reforestation. That's why we were excited to hear about Air-Ink from Graviky. Through a post tailpipe retrofit, called a KAALINK…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Features
Cookware That Will Last for a Lifetime of Meals

All men hit an age where it’s just not worth ordering out all the time. Takeout might be delicious, but it’s absolute trash for your body. The same goes for fast food burgers, pizza, and all the other delicious things we clog our arteries with in our youth. When we…

By Maxwell Barna
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Entertainment
An Andre the Giant Documentary Is Coming to HBO

Before The Rock dropped The People's Elbow, Bret Hart locked in a Sharpshooter, and Stone Cold ripped open a beer, there was a wrestler who was truly larger than life. Andre the Giant, the wrestler turned actor, was, perhaps, the first true wrestling superstar. Now, thanks to HBO and Bill Simmons,…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Retroblox Combines Every Classic Game Console

The Retroblox modular retro game console is an excellent idea, even if their slogan "Unleash Your Nostalgia" comes off a little pandering. First is their on board optical disc drive that can directly play your PS1 and Sega CD games, among others. Its modular support comes in for older cartridge games.…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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MiniMod Portable Shelters

Fantastic design doesn't have to include giant, sprawling creations, which is perfectly put into practice by the MiniMod Portable Shelter. Designed by MiniMod out of Brazil and built over a span of 45 days using a steel frame, solid treated and reforested wood, and glass to your specifications, each MiniMod…

By Cooper Fleishman
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