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Lifestyle

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

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Lifestyle
The Coolest Places to Watch the World Cup Around the Globe
By Lanny Fuller
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Lifestyle
On Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, 20 Years Later

And how horror went from critically hated to the latest Cannes "it" genre.

By Andy Crump
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Lifestyle
The Rise of Prediction Culture

From sports to pop culture, Polymarket is changing how we engage with what happens next.

By Cool Material
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Lifestyle
Italy From Home

How to stock your pantry, fridge, and bar cart like an Italian.

By Kaitlyn Rosati
Features
The Best Portable Fire Pits For Home and Camping

Most of the best summer memories I have from growing up in rural Pennslyvania happened around a fire pit. Whether it was roasting marshmallows, trying my first sip of beer, or sneaking away with my boyfriend when the embers were dying down, there’s something about a crackling fire on a…

By Brett Braley
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Features
This New Islay Single Malt Is Aged In Tequila Barrels

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. There’s no question as to what the Scotch whisky brand Smokehead is all about. They put it right there in the name. It’s owned by Ian Macleod Distillers, which…

By Nickolaus Hines
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Fashion
2023 OpusX Serie “Heaven and Earth” Big B Humidor

Fuente Fuente OpusX cigars are much coveted due to their incredible flavor, the exclusive Dominican Puro wrapper, and the impeccable construction. The brand is going big by making 100 special edition OpusX Serie “Heaven and Earth” Big B Humidors made with exotic okoume wood and finished in Red Sycamore. It…

By Amos Kwon
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Fashion
STEAL: Up to 40% Off Sale Items at HAY

When it comes to new brands that appreciate our modern design aesthetic as much as our love of pops of color, there's no other brand that delivers quite like HAY. Whether you're looking for furniture, kitchen essentials, seating, decor, games or, well, damn near anything else, HAY has a stylish,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Girls With Guns: An Appreciation of This Action-Packed Movie Genre

Action cinema’s “girls with guns” subgenre seems an unlikely source of prestige, going by name alone, and the bodies that arbitrate movies’ cultural value - the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for instance - seem to agree. Institutions like AMPAS rarely honor action films of any sort, save…

By Andy Crump
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