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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
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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.

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Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in July 2026.

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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
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You Can Now Invest in Rare Whisky

As you watch Bitcoin, Ether, and Litecoin go up and down like a trio of bouncing balls, you may decide you want a more stable investment. We're not exactly Bobby Axelrod, but we do think that's wise. Before you turn to a collection of ETFs and mutual funds, consider gold—liquid…

By Mike Newman
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Only Smoke the Finest with the Ashton 5-Cigar Assortment

Five of the finest premium, aged Ashton cigars tantalize the palate in an iconic assortment of award-winning blends. The world-renowned brand has enjoyed classic status in the cigar collections of seasoned connoisseurs for decades. Tasting notes of cashews, coffee beans, cedar, and graham cracker accompany signature Dominican spices patiently blended…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gravity Chopsticks 2.0 Never Touch the Table

Chopsticks are some of the simplest, most utilitarian and well-designed utensils that have ever been created, which is probably why no one has really iterated on the design significantly since they were invented over 6,000 years ago. Once you overcome the learning curve, the only real issue with them was…

By Cooper Fleishman
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This is How You Cook a Proper Steak

Cooking steaks is an art form that gets simplified all too often. Every week, we’re reading new articles about how to cook the perfect steak. Sometimes, it’s a flat top grill. Sometimes you slap meat on a metal grate above a fire. Hell, sometimes it’s in a bag of water.…

By Maxwell Barna
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The Insta Pot Is the Only Kitchen Gadget You Need to Buy in 2018

The hubbub over the Insta Pot started last year when The New York Times fell head over heals for the do-everything kitchen gadget. And when we say "head over heals," we mean the newspaper wrote many articles about it in the span of a few months that were too sappy to…

By Mike Newman
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