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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
Lifestyle
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
By Beau Hayhoe
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Lifestyle
Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

By Cool Material
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
Lifestyle
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
The World’s Highest Distillery Just Made the Perfect End-of-Summer Whiskey The World’s Highest Distillery Just Made the Perfect End-of-Summer Whiskey
Lifestyle
The World’s Highest Distillery Just Made the Perfect End-of-Summer Whiskey

Breckenridge Distillery’s newest bottle starts with some of the most coveted peaches in America.

By Beau Hayhoe
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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Transportation
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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Food
The Spark Grill Combines Charcoal With the Ease of Gas

When it comes to the best way to grill, it always boils down to a decision between the flavor of charcoal or the convenience of gas. The Spark grill aims to make that decision a thing of the past with some clever new innovations and technical upgrades. The modern charcoal…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Cycleage Off-Road Electric Skateboard

Adding motors to anything with wheels will always make it a more interesting ride, but that's particularly true when it comes to skateboards. There have been more than a few electric skateboards over the years, but the upcoming CYCLEAGE aims to tackle something a little more adventurous than just the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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