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Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors
Lifestyle
Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors
By Beau Hayhoe
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
Lifestyle
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

By Cool Material
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Lifestyle
How to Serve Great Cocktails Without Missing Your Own Party

World-class spirits, classic cocktails, and no time spent shaking and stirring.

By Cool Material
A Haunted Road Trip: Ghosts, Cocktails, and a Very Creepy Hospital A Haunted Road Trip: Ghosts, Cocktails, and a Very Creepy Hospital
Lifestyle
A Haunted Road Trip: Ghosts, Cocktails, and a Very Creepy Hospital

From dilapidated hospitals to disapproving librarians in a bar, I took a haunted Eastern Washington road trip.

By Brandon Withrow
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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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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