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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
Varialift Solar-Powered Airships

Ask a Millennial what a dirigible is, and you'll get a seriously blank look. Those of us old enough to appreciate the Goodyear Blimp (not the Hindenburg) have fond memories of them slowly air-lumbering around football stadiums. Well, their heyday might not be over quite yet if Varialift has anything…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
1970 Rokon Trail-Breaker Motorcycle

If you're on the hunt for a truly unique motorcycle that doesn't look like some dark and menacing modded number, take one look at this construction-heavy-equipment-yellow vintage Rokon that's sold on Bring-A-Trailer totally unmodified and in excellent condition. It's a fat-tired dirt bike with a crazy two-wheel drive setup from…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Vertical Aerospace Seraph eVTOL Air Taxi

Despite the fact that we human beings can't handle traffic in two dimensions, adding the third dimension of flight is all but assumed at this point. In light of that, it seems like every major brand out there is trying to get a piece of the market. Boeing and Porsche…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Holiday
Daniel Craig Customized a Special Aston Martin for the Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog

Every year, Neiman Marcus releases a collection of items for their Christmas catalog that, if we're being frank, is completely absurd, over the top and only for the incredibly rich. We're not buying any of these things like the Cobalt Valkyrie-X Private Plane in Rose Gold, but that doesn't mean…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
This LEGO Ideas Set Includes Three Different Dinosaur Fossils

As much as we love the freedom and creativity imparted upon us with a giant pile of plastic LEGO bricks and no final goal in site, we also appreciate everything that goes into the creation of LEGO Ideas sets with finished products like LEGO versions of Steamboat Willie, a Toyota Landcruiser…

By Cooper Fleishman
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