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Lifestyle

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

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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
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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
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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
Honda’s Autonomous Vehicle Concepts

If you think autonomous vehicles will just make your commute more relaxing, Honda wants to show you otherwise. Honda Great Journey is a project from the automaker that showcases some of their ideas for autonomous rides of the future. From an expedition vehicle that tracks animals, to a desert train…

By Mike Newman
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Food
flatev is a Keurig for Fresh Tortillas

Every once in a while we’ll luck upon a friend—or, more likely, mom or grandma—making a batch of fresh tortillas we can eat, but the sad likelihood is every one of you reading this probably has a favorite grocery store tortilla brand you pick up when you're at the store. With…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
Award-Winning Chili Recipes You Can Easily Make at Home

You may or may not know this, but in some parts of the country, a good chili recipe is worth more than gold. But why? What about this southwestern stew, comprised of meat, beans, tomatoes, chili peppers, other spices, and pretty much anything else you can think off, makes people…

By Maxwell Barna
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Features
Inside: Beard – The Tokyo Restaurant that Looks Like a Brooklyn Apartment

Beard is a neighborhood bistro located in the leafy district of Meguro. A nondescript building on a quiet residential street, there isn’t much to set it apart beyond the chevron wood door. Unassuming  (but charming) is the word that came to mind once we entered the establishment. The warm industrial…

By Drew Haas
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Home
The Jean Hanger

By now, everyone knows that throwing your good pairs of denim into the dryer is a long-term recipe for disaster. Hanging them after a washing (yes, it's a good idea to wash your jeans) involves crappy clip hangers that they always fall off, getting wrinkles from trying to fit them…

By Cooper Fleishman
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