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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

By Cool Material
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Finding Nature and Nurture in Puerto Vallarta

Come for the mountains, ocean, and adventure. Stay for the martinis, massages, and freshly cleaned sunglasses.

By Lanny Fuller
What To Watch If You Loved (Or Hated) Digger What To Watch If You Loved (Or Hated) Digger
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What To Watch If You Loved (Or Hated) Digger

8 picks for the Digger faithful and the Digger deniers.

By Andy Vasoyan
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Edgar Wright is Finally Back with ‘Baby Driver’

There's been a bit of a lull in Edgar Wright's career since his ill-fated but apparently glorious Ant-Man script. The last movie he made was The World's End back in 2013 when he closed out his Cornetto Trilogy. Four years later and he's finally reemerged with Baby Driver, a movie about a young…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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What to Watch This Weekend: Burning Sands

With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend, a series in which we give you our pick for the best new show or…

By Mike Newman
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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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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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‘Missing Richard Simmons’ Is the Best Podcast You’re Not Listening To

Richard Simmons is a hard person to forget. The volume of his voice is matched only by the volume of his clothing, and there was a period of time—the 80s and 90s, mostly—when he brought all of that to talk shows, television programs, and movies on a regular basis. He's bright.…

By Mike Newman
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