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Lifestyle

Inspiration for elevated living: the best in food, drinks, home, travel, health, entertainment & more.

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Lifestyle
How to Serve Great Cocktails Without Missing Your Own Party
By Cool Material
What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
Lifestyle
What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary

Consider this your homework before You Can See Everything arrives October 16.

By Lanny Fuller
Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
Lifestyle
Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act

Inside FRET12, the Chicago shop turning rock ’n’ roll culture into clothes, art, live sessions, beer, and more.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Lifestyle
Our Go-to Albums for Hosting

7 albums that set the mood so you can worry about the food and whether you have enough ice.

By Cool Material
Transportation
Timber’s Hands-Free Bike Bell

If you're riding your bike on a crowded trail or path, you're familiar with constantly have to activate your horn or yell "on your left" to everyone else on the trail. Timber's Mountain Bike Bell makes that entire ordeal less hazardous and annoying because the cowbell design is activated automatically…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
LuftAuto

While the German word luftgekhult literally translates to “air-cooled,” to two-time LeMans winner Patrick Long and Howie Idelson it means much more. Specifically, a brand that combines historically important (and air-cooled) cars as well as like-minded individuals in events creatively designed for the greater good. For example, their latest project—the…

By Kevin McCauley
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Home
De Jong & Co. Wooden 45 Record Case

If you're going to spend close to a grand on a case for your seven inch records, you won't do much better than the De Jong & Co. Wooden 45 Record Case. Designed with three custom, solid wood 45 adapters in a drop-down compartment, two spaces for records and a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The Godfather Notebook

The Godfather is, unquestionably, one of the greatest films of all time. Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece has been dissected more times, by more people than we can count, but The Godfather Notebook goes one step further by publishing Coppola's notes and annotations on Mario Puzo's original novel. Written before filming…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
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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