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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
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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 Lola Méndez
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
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The 5 Best Sous Vide Machines for the Best Steak of Your Life

We're going to tip you off on something here: for the most tender, mouth-watering meat you've ever tasted, you want to go sous vide. The technique, which requires you to put your steak, short ribs, or other item in a vacuum-sealed bag and drop it in a water bath held…

By Mike Newman
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Trinken Lids Hide Beer in a Coffee Cup

There are plenty of clever ways to drink in public, but none of them compare to the simplicity and ease of the Trinken Lid. Trinken Lids hide beer in a coffee cup with six sets of snaps to hold your can and a silicone gasket seal to ensure the beer…

By Cooper Fleishman
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A Guide to the Perfect Martini

While an evening with friends generally requires nothing more than a decent beer selection, the fact remains that some occasions will require you to up your drinking game. Put down the red cups and ping pong ball, nimrod, we're talking about a more sophisticated drink, a cocktail. And when sophistication…

By Kevin McCauley
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The 8 Beers You Should Drink This Summer

The smell of burgers searing on the grill is best accompanied by the taste of a cold, refreshing beer. A great summer beer cools you off and quenches your thirst while tasting damn good in the process. So put away the barrel-aged stouts and heavy barleywines and reach for one of these. These…

By Mike Newman
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Carlsberg Father of Quality Lager Is Brewed With Yeast From a 133-Year-Old Bottle

Unbeknownst to most, Carlsberg created a pure yeast over a century ago and distributed it for free to other breweries to combat beer sickness and widespread inconsistencies in repeated brews. The Re-Brew project uses an extracted sample of that original yeast from a 133-year-old Carlsberg bottle recently discovered in an…

By Cooper Fleishman
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