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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
“Abandon All Hope” Motorcycle by Patricio Castelli

The future is the past, the past the future. No one we know said that, but it seems Argentinian fabricator Patricio Castelli's hand-crafted aluminum motorcycle pretty much embodies this mantra. The radical bike was inspired by sci-fi spacecraft from the '40s and '50s, and it looks more like an interplanetary…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
The Igloo Kegmate Cooler Has a Built-In Beer Tap

Head to any larger size beer fest and you're bound to see breweries serving their tasty pours through a cooler that's been modified with a tap, tubes and hookups to chill the beer as it passes through before it hits your glass. Think of the Igloo Kegmate Cooler as a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Vagabund Moto V12 1994 BMW R100RT

Austria's wonderful Vagabund Moto takes old school Beemers and brings them to the modern age with unique personalities that capitalize on BMW's original designs combined with fresh aesthetics. Their latest V12 uses a 1994 R100RT and adds matte blackness everywhere, including the custom, hulking tank with a milled aluminum Vagabund…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Standard Manual “Parks” Coffee Table Book

Just because you and your kids may not have been to one of our country's breathtaking national parks doesn't mean you can't experience some of it in an analog fashion. The new book "Parks - From Pictures To Words: Persuasion and the National Parks" covers the artwork from the National…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Vantablack BMW X6

BMW has finally figured out a way to make their hulking X6 Sport Activity Vehicle look way smaller. This particular one is clad in what's called "Vantablack VBx2", a hue that seems born of a black hole. The paint isn't just super black, it makes use of carbon nanotubes that…

By Amos Kwon
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