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Finding Nature and Nurture in Puerto Vallarta
Lifestyle
Finding Nature and Nurture in Puerto Vallarta
By Lanny Fuller
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Lifestyle
Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

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
Food
Burger King Japan Has A Murdered Out Cheeseburger

If Burger King Japan's goal was to make a burger as unappetizing as possible, they succeeded. The all-black cheeseburger looks pretty cool, but we're not so sure we'd want it traveling into our stomachs. They made the bun with bamboo charcoal to give it its Darth Vader-like appearance, and they…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
400 Hours of U.S. Open Tennis Music From James Murphy

Leave it to the man behind LCD Soundsystem to make tennis interesting. In partnership with IBM (yeah, that IBM) and the U.S. Open, James Murphy is creating live stream musical tracks using data collected from each of the matches. When all is said and done, they estimate there will be…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Drinks
Corvus Hopped Coffee

We love cold brewed coffee. We love hopped-up IPAs. So it would just make sense that we love Corvus' Hopped Coffee. The cold brewed coffee is dry hopped with Citra for 17 hours to give each bottle some of those hoppy notes our nostrils love. Now that we've got you in…

By Mike Newman
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Home
DIY: Wooden Camp / Beach Chair

Doing It Yourself isn’t always the easiest or cheapest option, but odds are you won’t find anything more satisfying than finishing a DIY project with your own two hands. Each week, we’re going to showcase one cool DIY project tutorial from around the web. You probably already own at least…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Brooklyn Biltong Is Better Than Jerky

If you've only had jerky from the gas station mart, you need to expand your horizons. While there's a ton of tremendous artisanal beef jerky out there, we'd like to present you with another option: Biltong. The South African cured meat is made of raw beef fillets cut into thing strips,…

By Mike Newman
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