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Lifestyle

Inspiration for elevated living: the best in food, drinks, home, travel, health, entertainment & more.

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Lifestyle
The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
By Cool Material
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
Lifestyle
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

These 5 lighters turn a disposable necessity into a piece of EDC you’ll actually want to carry.

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
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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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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