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Lifestyle

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

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Lifestyle
Laphroaig’s New Whisky Comes With No Tasting Notes And a Chance to Hang with Willem Dafoe
By Andy Vasoyan
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Lifestyle
The Ancient Art of Cooking Dinner Beneath Your Feet

Across nearly every continent, cultures have discovered the same thing. The earth makes a pretty incredible oven.

By Lola Méndez
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Lifestyle
The Anti-Instagram Cocktail Era Is Here

Why bartenders and drinkers are ditching the garnish circus and getting back to minimalistic cocktails.

By Christopher Osburn
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Lifestyle
Black Book: 10 Products Our Editors Loved in April 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in April 2026.

By Cool Material
Transportation
Katallis EV.500

Tantamount to electrifying a vintage Jaguar E-Type roadster, the Katallis EV.500 aims to make old-school new-school underneath. Rather than making an electric moto that looks like it has teleported to us from the future, the EV.500 uses WWII-style bodywork that mimics the riveted fuselage of propelled fighter jet like the…

By Amos Kwon
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Home
Stealth House Concept

If all this staying at home and sheltering in place has you thinking about escaping to the middle of nowhere, you're on the same page as the rest of us. If there were any one place we could dream up where we'd want to live while we run out the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
1964 Pontiac Banshee XP-333 Coupe

The resemblance between this singular Pontiac Banshee XP-333 and the C2 Corvette isn't coincidental. In 1964, General Motors need a new vehicle to fight against the rising tide of the Ford Mustang pony car. None other than John DeLorean (in his pre-DeLorean DMC-12 era) created this Banshee to go mano-a-mano…

By Amos Kwon
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Outdoors
U-Boat Worx NEMO Personal Submarine

In what might amount to the ultimate way to social distance from every human being on the planet, the U-Boat Worx NEMO takes you to oceanic vistas in Bond-villain style for a little over a million bucks. The two-seater personal sub uses a big pressurized acrylic hub with untrammeled views…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Unicat MD56c 6×6 Expedition Vehicle

We've covered more than our fair share of completely absurd, over-the-top, apocalypse-ready expedition vehicles over the years. Part expensive off-road camper, part mobile command center and part emergency shelter, the expedition vehicle is something we've never considered more seriously than we are right now in the wake of what's going…

By Cooper Fleishman
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