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Lifestyle

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

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Lifestyle
Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer
By Beau Hayhoe
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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
The Home Bar Upgrade Nobody Talks About

Premium mixers are doing for cocktails now what craft spirits did a decade ago.

By Christopher Osburn
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Lifestyle
The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire

Penelope Bourbon's Architects of Golf Collection celebrates the game that sparked one of whiskey's most impressive success stories.

By Beau Hayhoe
Features
This Smart Coffee Maker is Your Personal No Fuss, At-home Barista

This is Worth the Hype, where our writers and editors put popular products to the test to see if they are, in fact, worth the hype. I’m not a coffee snob, or at least I don’t think I am. I pretty much only drink dark roast coffee black, or the…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Dodge Viper “Defender” Prop Car

You might not be old enough to remember the NBC "Viper" TV series from the 1990s, but just know that the unique Dodge Viper-based "Defender" was the star of the show. The car looks futuristic even by today's standards, and one of the 14 prop cars just sold at auction…

By Amos Kwon
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Features
The 9 Must-try German Beers To Drink This Summer

To say that Germany has affected the American brewing industry is a massive understatement. Without Germany, there likely isn’t much of a brewing culture in the US at all. While there are a few breweries in the US that can trace their roots back to the late 1800s in pre-Prohibition…

By Christopher Osburn
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Transportation
Genesis GV80 Coupe Concept

The world loves a chopped, sporty, premium SUV as exemplified by the BMW X6, Audi SQ8, and the Porsche Cayenne Coupe. Genesis dug into their playbooks and created the GV80 Coupe Concept for the New York Auto Show this year. The result is the best-looking iteration in the illustrious bunch,…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
Oyster Tempo Cooler

Coolers have come a long way, but they pretty much all require ice in order to function at their best, which edges in on their actual capacity. The Oyster Tempo changes all that, hence qualifying it as the world’s first high-performance cooler. The apex predator of thermal performance, the Oyster…

By Amos Kwon
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