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Lifestyle

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

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Lifestyle
Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture
By Lola Méndez
Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival
Lifestyle
Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Bourbon has never been bigger. And somehow, it still has secrets.

By Lanny Fuller
Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
Lifestyle
Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide

The drinks, the music, the vibes, and everything else you need to end summer on a high note.

By Cool Material
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Lifestyle
How to Serve Great Cocktails Without Missing Your Own Party

World-class spirits, classic cocktails, and no time spent shaking and stirring.

By Cool Material
Transportation
Honda Bulldog Motorcycle Concept

There's no question that, for Urbanites, two-wheeled transportation is the way to go. But sometimes you gotta get away, and then what are you gonna do? Carry your stuff under one arm and attempt to steer with the other? Honda has you covered—hopefully—with their “lovable touring partner” Bulldog Concept motorcycle.…

By Kevin McCauley
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Home
Robot Clock by MB&F

This robotic clock is far from the one you had as a kid with a digital display planted in Optimus Prime's plastic stomach. Melchior, from MB&F and L'Epée 1839, is a 480-component mechanical table clock that just happens to look like something out of a sci-fi film. Complete with a…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
To Pimp a Butterfly – Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar's latest album, To Pimp a Butterfly, came out a week ahead of schedule, which means our ears have had time to digest the tracks. Now that they have, consider us in the group calling it one of the best hip-hop albums of the last decade. The new King of Compton…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
Custom-Made Bandit9 Bishop Limited to Nine Models

The crew at Bandit9 teased us with this concept last year. For a lucky nine enthusiasts, the fantasy has now become reality, and that reality is called the Bandit9 Bishop. Hailing from Vietnam, Bandit9 is passionate (maybe obsessed) with creating motorcycle art, motorcycles beyond imagination. The Bishop is a shining…

By Kevin McCauley
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Features
The World’s Best Whiskies 2015

Last year, the World Whiskies Awards selected a Tasmanian offering as the finest single malt in the world. It was a slap in the face to Scottish distillers known for cleaning up in such categories. If that was a slap, this, perhaps, is a haymaker. Here are some of the winners from the…

By Mike Newman
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