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Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors
Lifestyle
Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors
By Beau Hayhoe
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
Lifestyle
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

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
A Haunted Road Trip: Ghosts, Cocktails, and a Very Creepy Hospital A Haunted Road Trip: Ghosts, Cocktails, and a Very Creepy Hospital
Lifestyle
A Haunted Road Trip: Ghosts, Cocktails, and a Very Creepy Hospital

From dilapidated hospitals to disapproving librarians in a bar, I took a haunted Eastern Washington road trip.

By Brandon Withrow
Features
Waterford’s Organic Irish Whiskey Shares More About How It’s Made Than You Ever Thought To Know

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. Sometimes it feels like information overload with all of the details one can find on a particular whiskey they like. Others, it feels like the key to fully appreciating…

By Nickolaus Hines
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Fashion
STEAL: Up to 80% Off Select Sale Items at Macy’s

When it comes to brand loyalty in the retail sense, no brand does more to earn your loyalty than Macy's. They have great referral benefits, rewards programs and credit terms, but most importantly, they host quite a few sales with price points their competitors just can't match. They're running a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Video Games That Are as Fun to Watch as They Are to Play

I don’t trust people when they say they like watching video games. I’ve tried that part of it, where I watch someone else play a game, and all I can think of is how badly they’re messing everything up and how differently I’d be playing and how wrong they are…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Entertainment
You Can Finally Build an A-Frame Cabin of Your Own With LEGO

Whether it's the proximity to nature, the rustic appeal, the simplicity of the design or the endless possibilities, the A-Frame cabin is something we've all thought about building at one point or another. We're not quite adventurous enough to build a cliff-hanging A-Frame cabin, and we don't yet have the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
If You Enjoy ‘The Last of Us’ Then You Need To Play This Other Post-Apocalypse Game

When everyone was first going on and on about the first Covid lockdown only lasting two weeks, I bought a PS4. I’ve read and watched enough on apocalyptic historical events to know that even fully functioning, politically healthy countries have insane difficulty in controlling new disease. Since the United States…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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