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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
Home
Birdbox Adventure Cabins

We've seen quite a few turnkey-ready cabins that allow you to setup an off-the-grid rental or personal retreat wherever you have space. Design firm Livit and their new Birdbox Adventure Cabins are some of our favorite options because of their unique combination of minimalist design and understated luxury. Available in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
The Official Harley-Davidson F-250 Truck

Taking styling cues from its F-150 baby brother in Harley-Davidson trim, the new Harley-Davidson F-250 is just more of everything. Using the F-250 as the base vehicle, Tuscany Motor Company outfits it with black and orange features everywhere. The front fascia gets orange accents, a big honeycomb mesh grille, H-D…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Alessandro Paglia ‘Smashed’ Iconic Movie Cars

In case you haven't heard of Alessandro Paglia, he's a Milan-based artist and designer educated in the world of product design that made his bones creating one-off, realistic drawings of iconic cars getting smashed to pieces from a top-down perspective. Iconic taxis from films. Dodge Chargers emblazoned with Americana. Herbie…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
The UBCO FRX1 Trail Bike Has a Top Speed of 50 Mph

New Zealand-based electric bike manufacturer is following up on the success of their UBCO 2x2 Utility Bike with a new trail bike that is decidedly more performance focused than their previous releases. It's called the UBCO FRX1 Trail Bike, and it's every bit as fast as it looks. When we…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Teenage Engineering Just Released Plans so You Can 3D Print Your Own IKEA Frekvens Accessories

The IKEA x Teenage Engineering Frekvens Electronics collection perfectly encapsulated the brands' desires for affordable, fun, funky and infinitely hackable products. Teenage Engineering is taking the hackability aspect of the Frekvens line one stop further than the accessories they already released with IKEA with a whole new collection of accessories…

By Cooper Fleishman
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