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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
Entertainment
The Craighill Tycho Puzzle Will Change the Way You Kill Time

Brooklyn-based product design studio Craighill has always impressed with their unique offerings, attention to detail and high-end construction. As much as we love their bracelets, knives, key rings and other EDC goods, it's their unconventional desktop puzzles that have always intrigued us most. Craighill's Venn Puzzle and Jack Puzzle are both great options…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
FJ Company 1982 Toyota Land Cruiser G43-S

The folks at FJ Company sure are busy of late. Their newest creation takes the venerable Toyota Land Cruiser G43-S and throws the full beans at it in terms of equipment upgrades, and it's freakin' glorious. With its beautiful OD green paint job and blackened and tough trim bits everywhere,…

By Amos Kwon
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Home
TONERICO:INC ‘A Pit Autobacs Shinonome’

If you don't have your own man cave yet, you might want to move to Koto City in Tokyo Japan where TONERICO:INC just opened the ultimate man cave for car, book, and coffee lovers. The huge two-floor emporium complex houses an expansive garage with service lifts, a beautiful bookstore, Starbucks,…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Jim Murray’s Best Whiskys from the 2020 ‘Whisky Bible’ Have Been Revealed

Every year, Jim Murray--an equally loved and loathed critic on the world whisky scene--unveils his list of the best whiskies in the world. It led to a bottle of Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye getting sold out internationally. Bottles of William Larue Weller becoming even harder to get your hands…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
2020 Volvo XC40 Recharge

As much as we love the boxy Volvos of old, the Swedish car brand is fast-forwarding in a big way. As the first entrant in their electric 'Recharge' line, the 2020 XC40 Recharge is the brand's first EV, ever. Styled similar to but slightly edgier than its gas-powered brother, the…

By Amos Kwon
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