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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
Commonwealth Classics Georgetown Land Rover Defender 110

If you throw a rock, you just might hit a customized Land Rover Defender that's got all the modern doodads and blackened out look. It seems restomod Land Rover shops are everywhere. But if that's not your bag because you don't want to looked like an action movie hero, and…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Cleveland Cyclewerks Falcon BLK Electric Motorcycle

Despite the fact that we've seen plenty of electric motorcycles over the past few years, Cleveland Cyclewerks Falcon BLK Electric Motorcycle still carves a unique path with the build, design and performance options available to the end user. The Cleveland Cyclewerks Falcon BLK Electric Motorcycle has all the performance specs…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
This Japanese Chef Rendered 1,000 of His Meals in Notebooks for 32 Years

If a love for food and art can coexist in equal amounts, Japanese chef Itsuo Kobayashi has nailed them both in his copious hand-painted expressions of his meals for over three decades. Kobyashi painstakingly replicated his meals after writing vivid descriptions and then captured them in numerous notebooks and standalone…

By Amos Kwon
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1996 Porsche 911 GT2

The final iteration of the air-cooled 911s (993, the internal Porsche designation) are truly coveted, and this 1996 GT2 is a rare find. A mere 243 of the GT2 models were built over a three-year span, and only 161 of them were street legal including this one. It is, essentially,…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Machine 1867 Gilera Extra Rossa 175

Mod shop Machine 1867 has taken a vintage Italian vintage 1957 Gilera Extra Rossa 175 and turned it into a hillclimb style bike that looks both slick and capable with its huge knobby tires, big springer fork, and low-slung profile. The new Gilera mod also gets custom machined parts like…

By Amos Kwon
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