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Lifestyle

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

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Lifestyle
I Lived in Puerto Vallarta for 3 Years, Here Are My Top Recommendations
By Lola Méndez
The Coolest Father’s Day Gifts of 2026 The Coolest Father’s Day Gifts of 2026
Lifestyle
The Coolest Father’s Day Gifts of 2026

A curated collection of the best Father’s Day gifts for dads who appreciate craftsmanship, clever design, great stories, and really cool stuff.

By Cool Material
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Laphroaig’s New Whisky Comes With No Tasting Notes And a Chance to Hang with Willem Dafoe

The brand's second Dafoe collaboration is a 14-year single malt with no official tasting notes. Write the best one, and you could end up on set with the legend himself.

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
Home
Designed for Athletes: Zoma Sports Mattress

Getting a good night's sleep is essential if you want to perform your best after a work-out or training session. So, you need a mattress that's built to support your active lifestyle. For athletes, there is no better option than Zoma. The Zoma Sports Mattress combines pain-relief, body-contouring, and core…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Amazon Spheres

If you have any friends that work in tech, they've probably told you countless stories about their companies offering incredible work perks. We're all for surfing, free oil changes, paid vacations and those other obscene perks, but sometimes we just want a nice, quiet place to relax during the day.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Another Giant Collection of Hollywood Props is Going Up for Auction

When you're looking to pony up serious cash for the pleasure of having a piece from one of your favorite films, there's no better place to shop than a Prop Store auction. For more than two decades, Prop Store has been been putting together movie prop auctions that include some…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Rtech Fabrications Ponderosa

Idaho-based Rtech has just built a restomod to make all others wet themselves with its nostalgia, size, and earth crust-warping power. The base vehicle is a 1966 Chevy K30 Crew Cab body that’s paired with a 1972 C30 chassis, and its name is the Ponderosa. Rather than a defunct steakhouse…

By Amos Kwon
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Hyundai “45” Concept

Hyundai is on a roll with exciting new products like the Veloster Turbo N hot hatch, and now they want to show us what the EV future might look like with the Hyundai 45. So named for its first mass-market car that bowed at the 1974 Turin Motor Show, the…

By Amos Kwon
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