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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture
By Lola Méndez
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
Finding Nature and Nurture in Puerto Vallarta Finding Nature and Nurture in Puerto Vallarta
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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
Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide

The drinks, the music, the vibes, and everything else you need to end summer on a high note.

By Cool Material
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ImageSnap Custom Ceramic Tiles

Our phones are jam-packed with little pieces of art we created with the help of Instagram. Our favorite camera app has taken us from "weird guy snapping pictures of a crushed beer can" to "artist" (pronounced art-eest). As we look for clever and inventive ways to show off our work to the…

By Mike Newman
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The Venn of Beer

Not all things are greater than the sum of their parts.  We love inhaling cheap tacos and we love rollercoasters, but we don't love cleaning puke out of our Nikes.  Beer, clearly, does not fall into this category.  Don't believe us, go eat a yeast packet.  Something magical happens when…

By Mike Newman
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Scrabble Typography Edition

There was a time before iPhones when games of "Words With Friends" weren't played over daylong stretches where you guessed until you got a word that existed thus proving your superior intelligence. No, it was Scrabble, and it was played on a board you got at the toy store that you…

By Mike Newman
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Anytime something gets so big that soccer moms are into it, we can't help but turn into quasi-hipster elitists. When every passenger on our flight was reading a copy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a few years back, our initial instinct was to shun it as mass crap. Only it…

By Mike Newman
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Mixtape: SXSW

The Music portion of SXSW (we’re not even going to pretend like you don’t know what that acronym means) is as close to Mecca as you can get if you’re a lover of all things indie and undiscovered. For 25 years running it’s been the leading festival event in an…

By Cooper Fleishman
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