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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 Most Unhinged Frankenstein Movies You’ve Never Seen
By Andy Crump
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Lifestyle
What It’s Like to Mush Your Own Dog Team Through Alaska

Experiencing Alaska by dog was truly magical.

By Brandon Withrow
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Lifestyle
Jim Beam’s Small-Batch Booker’s Bourbon Is A Must-Buy in 2026

The first Booker’s release of the year is inspired by none other than the Big Easy, one of Booker Noe’s favorite cities

By Beau Hayhoe
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Lifestyle
The Gentlemen’s Trip: A Field Guide

Everything you need to turn a guys trip into something better.

By Lanny Fuller
Home
Roborock’s Q5+ Robot Vacuum Makes Cleaning Automatic

Are you tired of vacuuming your living room? Mopping your dining room? Doing both in your office?  Enter Roborock with the new Q5+ Robot Vacuum. These ultra-intelligent, home-based, robot-vacuums check all the boxes you'd expect on the cleaning front, while also featuring LiDAR, advanced app-controls, multi-level mapping, and, all the…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Drinks
What to Drink This Weekend: Caipirinha

Looking for a new cocktail to try out this weekend? Want to wind down with a fresh new drink? We’ve got you covered. Here’s what you should drink this weekend. With the weather seriously heating up this summer, we thought it was appropriate to cool off with an extremely refreshing…

By John A. Paradiso
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Home
SunnySide Solar-Powered Lunchbox

I was always a ham and cheese sandwich kid in high school. I packed my brown paper bag every day with the same enjoyable albeit simple lunch. Sadly lunchbox technology just hadn't allowed for more impressive or intricate meals. But, tech company SunnySide is changing that with the launch of…

By John A. Paradiso
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Features
The Best Booze You’ve Never Heard Of

The beverage industry moves quickly and spirits that were once considered obscure or under-the-radar suddenly dominate cocktail trends for years. It wasn't long ago that mezcal was considered a hipster oddity. Now you'll find mezcal drinks on nearly every cocktail bar's menu. More recently the world of Italian amaro has…

By John A. Paradiso
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Entertainment
Get a Piece of Music History with Paul McCartney’s 1988 Les Paul

Whether you like the Beatles or not, you can’t deny that Paul McCartney’s influence in the music space has been felt for nearly six decades. Because of this, owning one of his guitars could be considered, by some, to be Shroud of Turin-level bragging rights. Right now, his 1988 Les…

By Brett Braley
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