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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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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
The Back to School Guide for Guys Who Aren’t Going Back to School The Back to School Guide for Guys Who Aren’t Going Back to School
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The Back to School Guide for Guys Who Aren’t Going Back to School

Your syllabus for an adult-life reset in September.

By Lanny Fuller
Asheville Has Range Asheville Has Range
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Asheville Has Range

Mountains and murals. Dive bars and the Biltmore. Airstreams and American single malt. Five days barely scratches the surface in one of America's most charming towns.

By Beau Hayhoe
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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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PicoStill Home Distiller

PicoBrew wants to do for home distilling what it did for homebrewing. The company that brought you the PicoBrew, a homebrewing setup that made brewing as easy as pressing a few buttons, has just introducing an add-on device that allows you to distill pilot batches of spirits in the comfort…

By Mike Newman
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Mikkeller Beer Chips

When we think of bar snacks, we think of foods that go well with a cold one. Bar nuts are the gold standard along with mini pretzels, but Mikkeller just found a way to make the pairing a little more seamless. Mikkeller Beer Chips are potato chips made with real…

By Mike Newman
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