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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
By Lola Méndez
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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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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
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The Cthulhu Roaster

Burnt wieners are never a good thing regardless of how you interpret it.  If you're cooking up a few dogs on the grill you can run into this problem for a whole slew of reasons - you got wrapped up in an ultra-competitive wiffle ball game, your buddies were cracking some…

By Mike Newman
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The Web’s Greatest Burger Recipes

There's a 99% chance you'll be around a grill at some point this Memorial Day Weekend. Included in that 1% of people who aren't are those too hungover to go outside and face the sun, those who somehow got caught at the office and the .0001% of the population that…

By Mike Newman
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iHops: 8 Brilliant Beer Apps

Until scientists much smarter than us figure out how to make pouring beer out of an iPhone a reality (ala that sweet Bud Light commercial), we're going to stick to consuming our favorite beverage the best way we know how - in copious quantities. However, that's doesn't mean saddling up…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Tactical Sammich

What's the shelf life of that Subway sub you're downing at the office?  A few days?  A week if you stretch it?  That's all fine and good when you get some hunger pains but there's one thing you probably didn't think about when you bought that Meatball Marinara - zombies. …

By Mike Newman
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Williams-Sonoma Butcher Shop

If you've ever dropped by a Williams-Sonoma and grabbed a catalog, we're sure you quickly noticed that half the stuff isn't found in the store.  Sure, they've got the selection of Le Creuset dutch ovens, grilling gizmos and a stock of hand soaps that even a garbageman couldn't go through in…

By Mike Newman
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