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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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Red Oak Burger Grilling Planks

We've all flirted with the idea of creating some signature burger while standing in the kitchen with the grill lit out on the deck.  Usually though after a variety of odd spice blends, foreign cheese mixtures and crushed potato chip layers, we realize we just want a standard burger.  With that…

By Mike Newman
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The Original Maine Lobster Kit

Normally we'd turn to J. Crew for everything to wear to a beachfront clambake:  Faded khaki shorts, a crisp white polo and a distressed leather belt we'd hope to have undone by some 10 in a sundress at the end of the night.  The classic clothier wouldn't normally be the place we'd turn…

By Mike Newman
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Concrete Kitchen Products

Bringing concrete into the kitchen sounds like a recipe for disaster (pun very much intended) and, perhaps, a very dry biscuit.  Luckily this is not the latest gastronomical craze found in Manhattan's most avant-garde restaurants but rather the backbone of the kitchen products Culinarium sells.  Normally we'd use concrete for outdoor…

By Mike Newman
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Adjustable Nonstick Burger Press

Chances are you’ve already fired up the grill once for the season. Even if it isn’t warm yet where you live, it’s the time of year where guys get some sort of pre-programmed urge to ingest the smell of charcoal and flame-licked meat (that sounded oddly sexual). Along with steak the…

By Mike Newman
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Steak Button Thermometer Set

With warm weather fast approaching our minds immediately turn to ballpark beers and hotdogs, women tossing their chunky sweaters into space-saver bags and firing up the grill on an almost daily basis.  Nothing ruins a great steak quicker than searing it into a hockey puck or serving it up like…

By Mike Newman
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