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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
Food
Aluminum Solo Cups

When it comes to backyard and college drinking, there's nothing more iconic than the red Solo cup. [Ed. note: The song is stuck in our head's now too if it makes you feel any better.] They're convenient. They're cheap as hell. They can be recycled. But even with all those…

By Cooper Fleishman
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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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Home
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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Transportation
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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