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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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Lifestyle
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
Transportation
Velox Electric Off-Road Skateboards

Though we chalk up electric skateboards as another way to quickly and painfully kill ourselves, they certainly add another level of fun to outdoor trail sports. Velox makes two models that can take pretty much anything you throw at them thanks to heavy-duty and independently articulating shocks, all-terrain wheels, and…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Andy Warhol BMW M1 Art Car

There's no denying that BMW makes gorgeous machines in their own right. The BMW Art Car Project started in 1975 transformed them into rolling works of art when founder and French racecar driver Hervé Poulain tapped artists to create works right on the cars. Plenty of famous artists have worked…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
French’s Mustard Teamed up with Coolhaus to Make Mustard Ice Cream

The whole hoopla surrounding every day being "National Some-Kind-Of-Food Day" is all a bit ridiculous, but that's the world we live in these days. This Saturday is National Mustard Day which is even more ridiculous because mustard isn't even a food, but whatever, bring on the shenanigans. Popular ice cream…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Land Rover BackPacker

The future of land transportation is wide open. EVs, autonomous vehicles, remote-controlled vehicles, you name it. This unique travel-friendly four-wheeler is known as the Land Rover BackPacker, a concept created by German transportation designer Edwin Senger that "is inspired by the necessity of reduction in today's consumerist world." It's minimalist…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
Snow Peak Smokemeister

Just because you're on the go doesn't mean you can't take some creature comforts with you. The Snow Peak Smokemiester is a portable smoker that measures a mere 18.5 inches tall by 8.5 inches wide, and we're guessing you didn't know such a thing even existed. Clearly not for vegetarians,…

By Amos Kwon
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