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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
Aston Martin V12 Speedster

From the various iterations of the Vantage, to the Vulcan Hypercar, to the classic DB5, every Aston Martin release carries with it a certain amount of fanfare because they've been making excellent cars for more than a century. Few of those releases live up to the sheer ridiculousness of their…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
RUF Rodeo Off-Road Porsche Concept

We've seen more than our fair share of off-road Porsche 911 concepts over the years, but the RUF Rodeo Concept Coupe is anything but. Not only does RUF build their own vehicles based on Porsche designs, they don't really screw around with the world of digital concepts. Instead, the brand…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Koenigsegg Gemera Four-Seat Hypercar

Christian von Koenigsegg has imagined building a true-four seat hypercar for almost two decades, and he's finally realized it in the carbon fiber flesh. Rather than a cramped 2+2 grand tourer, the Gemera has four true seats for actual adults and provides untrammeled ingress and egress, to boot. The big…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Makeway Is a Modular, Magnetic Marble Super Puzzle

We love puzzles. We love magnets. We also love marbles, Rube Goldberg machines, building things and, well, any reasonably good excuse to waste as much time as possible. That's where Makeway comes in. Makeway is kind of like building one of those Hot Wheels race tracks from your youth except…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
One of Our Favorite Cast Iron Skillets Is on Sale for $15

Here at Cool Material, we really love our cast iron. Whether it’s the versatility, the durability or the taste that cast iron imparts to all your dishes, there’s just something about the material that makes it better than almost everything else on the market. While a case can certainly be made…

By Cooper Fleishman
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