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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.

By Cool Material
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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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Brooklyn Hard Candy

Hard candy has long been relegated to blue and white porcelain bowls that sit atop coffee tables in Grandmothers’ homes everywhere.  They’re the Matlock of candy.  The only one that ever seemed to transcend generations was Werther’s Originals and even those never held a candle to some Sour Patch Kids…

By Mike Newman
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Log Salt and Pepper Shakers

We could get used to living in the wilderness for a short period of time.  Yeah, we’d eventually miss our Wi-Fi, Apple products and copy of Black Swan on DVD (certain scenes at least) but we’d enjoy living off the land for a portion of our life.  We could even…

By Mike Newman
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Cast Iron Garlic Roaster

In a sea of after effects, the good definitely out weighs the bad when it comes to garlic. It makes potatoes fantastic. It has antioxidant properties. Throw it on chicken, steak or pretty much anything else with protein properties and it's instantly better. The only downside - the bad breath…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Happy Steak and BJ Day

Here’s a little secret:  No guy likes Valentine’s Day.  Some will say they think it’s sweet or they like to show their wife/girlfriend how much they mean, well you know what – bullshit.  With all the stress we put on ourselves to do something romantic, we’re pretty sure the biggest…

By Mike Newman
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The World’s Strongest Beers

Of all the most amazing things ever invented, beer is most definitely in our Top 3 (along with women and the iPad).  While we’ve dabbled in beers that have hovered around 10% alcohol by volume, those brews are like sipping O’Doul’s compared the world’s strongest beers:    Dogfish Head 120 Minute…

By Mike Newman
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