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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
Mercedes-Maybach G650 Landaulet

The Mercedes-Maybach G650 Landaulet is the latest Maybach resurrection that's also part AMG and is a v12-engined convertible Mercedes G-Class. In what may be the craziest Maybach or G-Class creation yet, Mercedes crammed a V12 biturbo with 630 horsepower and 737 pound-feet of torque into a vehicle that's essentially a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Nissan X-Wing Fighter-Themed Rogue

When one of your vehicles shares a name—at least somewhat—with a tremendously popular movie, a savvy marketing department might see an opportunity. After the praise and fanfare over Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Nissan went ahead and took one of their Rogues and transformed it into something the Red Leader…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
2016 Skypixel Photo Contest Winners

DJI, the company that makes some of the best drones out there, partnered with SkyPixel for an incredible photo contest near the end of 2016 that focused on aerial photography. These are the winning photos, which were all either taken with DJI drones or feature the drones in action. Artists…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Inside the Bugatti Chiron Factory

With 1,500 bhp, speeds up to 260 mph and a $2.5 million price tag, the Bugatti Chiron is a worthy successor to the Veyron in every way. After a photo journey inside the Bugatti Chiron Factory though, the amount of work that goes into the creation of just one of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Turn Your Cremated Remains into a Vinyl Record

There are all kinds of opinions about how to treat dead bodies. Plenty of people are buried, but others are in coffins that hang from cliff faces, some still make it to family dinner, and some don't even stay on Earth. And Vinyly has an entirely different way of doing…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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